SETTLEMENT OF SOLDIERS

Waikato Times, Volume 91, Issue 14133, 9 August 1919, Page 7

SETTLEMENT OF SOLDIERS

IN CANADA AND NEW ZEALAND. SIMILAR SCHEMES ADOPTED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. Saturday. "I was delighted that so much had been done in the settlement of returned soldiers on the land," said Mr Massey yesterday. "While I have been away from New Zealand I made it mv business to enquire as to what was being done in this matter in other parts of the Empire. I have no figures by me, bu- 1 I am satisfied that there is no other part of the empire, with the exception of Canada, that has done anything like so much in the settlement of soldiers as has been done in this country. I may sa->- also that Canada has been following closely in the footsteps of New Zealand. The Minister in Charge of Repatriation in Canada happens to be a friend of mine. I had a long talk with on the subject, and he told me that he had been regularly obtaining copies of all the New Zealand proposals in connection with the settlement of soldiers, and that they had been following in our footsteps. One advantage they have over us in Canada is that they have more land to give, and it is tand that will grow wheat. This makes it nossjble for a soldier to get crops '■••~n his land .at the first ploughing which is an advantage to a new settler."