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PURCHASE OF FARM DENIED RETURNED SOLDIERS’ CASE A Te Awamutu resident, a repatriated soldier who served overseas for three years in the Great War, and who, when hostilities again began in 1939, enlisted in the service of his country and served for 18 months in the transport division of the air services decided, subsequent to his return to civil occupation, to engage in farming. He was encouraged in this decision by two main factors, firstly on the frequent emphasis made for more primary production and secondly in the belief that every encouragement would be given the repatriated men to establish themselves on the land.
He accordingly made application to the proper authorities and has now received a reply from the State Advances Corporation, saying that the Board of the Corporation, in conjunction with a representative of the Rehabilitation Board, is of opinion that as applicant’s pre-war experience of farming in New Zealand was limited, a loan for the purchase of a farm is not warranted and favourable consideration of the application cannot be given. In conclusion, regret is expressed that the decision will doubtless be a disappointment, but the applicant was assured that the matter has been fully and sympathetically considered.
In discussing the matter, the applicant says the Board’s treatment of his application is not encouraging. “I was given no opportunity to meet the Board,” he says. The profession of “full and sympathetic consideration” is not, he feels, borne out by the facts. Had there been a genuine, desire to give effect to the Government’s stated desire to encourage the rehabilitation of returned soldiers the Board could have learned very easily that I was born and spent my early years on a farm and that I have worked all my life either on a farm or in activities fairly closely associated with primary production. If my experience is a forecast of the treatment returned soldiers are to expect, it is a poor look-out indeed, he adied.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 66, Issue 5600, 2 April 1943, Page 2
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329TURNED DOWN Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 66, Issue 5600, 2 April 1943, Page 2
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