SOLDIER SETTLERS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18439, 24 March 1922, Page 6

SOLDIER SETTLERS.

REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE. (Per Press Association.) DANNEVIRKE, March 23. A deputation of soldier settlers in the Glengarry Block was introduced to the Minister of Lands to-day by Mr A. McNicol, M.P., when Mr Quthric listened to the representation made by the settlers and also on their behalf in favour of an early revaluation of the block, it being unanimously contended that at present rentals and prices of produce the men had no hope of making reasonable success of their holdings. The Minister in the course of a sympathetic reply, said that both he and the Land Board would give the settlers a assistance in their power to help them over their difficulties. Returned soldier settlers were not the only ones affected by the slump—all farmers and the country generally were feeling the pinch—but the outlook was now improving. The Government had not wanted to buy all the land offered for soldiers’ sett’ement, but in many cases its hands had been forced by the insistent demand for land. The Glengarry settlement had been purchased at the then ruling price, and-that was the first time he had heard the price was too high. He could not swallow the statement that the value would have to be reduced 66 per cent. The Minister said he would have to stand by the law regarding revalaution, but would do everything reasonable to help the soldiers to make a success. I Halfbreeds 7 gns; Merinos 3 gns.