The price of land bought by the Government for the purpose of repatriating soldiers was referred to in a letter from Mr G. Mitchell, D. 5.0., which was read (states the “Dominion”) before the Dominion Executive of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association. Relative to tbe Tirumea Estate, which had been bought by the Government for £8 an acre, Mr Mitchell stated that it was doubtful whether before the war £4 an acre would have been paid for it. How, then, lie asked, could a soldier make it pay? In reference to the Keparoa Estate, lie said that similar conditions obtained.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16359, 23 February 1921, Page 3
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