ADVANCES TO SOLDIERS

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16724, 27 April 1920, Page 7

ADVANCES TO SOLDIERS

SUPPLIES TEMPORARILY REDUCED. v Per Press Association. . AUCKLAND, April 27. In replying to a question in regard to the Hon. D. H. Guthrie’s statement that the fund for advances for soldiers’ farms and homes was exhaused, Mr. Massey said that it was merely a temporary slowing down until further authority was given by Parliament. , Tho Advances Department have been so active in ministering to the needs of soldiers that the existing authorities have been pretty well exhausted. Tliey had provided homes in town and country* for over fourteen thousand soldiers and there was no intention to stop, but they could not continue at the rate of a million pounds monthly. We have purchased stock and farms had been equipped with anything else required. It could assure tho soldiers there was no cause for anxiety as the Government was doing its duty by them and would continue to do it.