SOLDIER SETTLERS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 9 June 1924, Page 9

SOLDIER SETTLERS.

IN SOOTH CANTERBURY

WORK OF REVALUATION COMMITTEE.

In speaking to a “Herald” reporter on Saturday, Air T. L. Hart, chairman of the South Canterbury Soldiers' Land Revaluation Committee, stated that the Committee was expediting its work as much as possible, and hoped to finish the revaluing by about the end of tho winter. Mr Hart .said that they were i.ell pleased with the class of soldier settlers with whom they came into contact, and the great majority were good workers and were doing thenbest to make a success of their business. There were a few instances where the men were unfitted for their work, and through lack of experience had a difficult row to hoe. They had met with a number of cases of hnrrlshin, and tho abnormal seasons that had been experieneed, together with the conditions following the slump, were accountable for the heavy losses which some had sustained. The Revaluation Committee, concluded Mr TTnrt. reported direct to the Dominion Board, and tho Board 'nrnlminiontefl its decision to the soldle, soH h-r. Some of them had nlrnntehad | heir eases decided. and had expressed their satisfaction with the decisions arrived at. With hardly an exception. the men worn loud in teoir nr-dses of what the Government, was doinrr for them. and there was a -'■ended determination on their part tn nay ihmr wav end put their properties on a sound basis.