SOLDIER SETTLERS.
SOME PLAIN SPEAKING.
At a meeting of the soldier settlers of Rongokokaho, near (Ekatahuna, one speaker said that there was now not a man of them that could make a living and' meet his engagements. If they could not do it this year they would have no chance next year. They were paying up to 35s per acre in interest, while for adjoining properties the owners’ would be unable to get 25s an acre. He had been forced into the position of having to ask for a postponement of instalments. An official had come along and suggested a month. He had replied, “If that is the best you can do, you had better send a man up from Wellintgon to run the d— farm, and I will get out.” The land had to he improved. This took money, and how were they going to get the money to make the land productive when the Government took half of their chequesl? If the land was not improved now it would run out further, and the properties would go on decreasing in value. One thing was plain; he could not go on from hand to mouth, and he was not going to run into debt without a prospect of getting out of it.
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Waipa Post, Volume XX, Issue 1241, 11 May 1922, Page 7
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213SOLDIER SETTLERS. Waipa Post, Volume XX, Issue 1241, 11 May 1922, Page 7
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