LAND FOR SOLDIERS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3993, 28 July 1915, Page 4

LAND FOR SOLDIERS.

FARMERS’ UNION VIEWS. CPBE3S ASSOCIATION TEHEGBAII.) WELLINGTON, July 27. Tho question of the steps that should he taken to provide returning soldiers with larld arose at the New Zealand Farmers’ Union Conference to-day, wlien the following remits were- intro•”fj fiat special legislation he proiiih-d giving first preference at land ballots W men who are serving with , the Expeditionary Forces orovided t"<vt they would Jjavo been eiegibie to ( ballot of they jjan been in New Zealand, and that tho representatives ot .theso men he allowed to apply on tlieii W.-hall. urge the Government to set aside suitable areas oi Crown and other lands m each lane district so that soldiers returning from active service shall have first option of taking up .sections in such aie..if thev no desire/'— (-UarJoorougk). •‘That the Government oe urged to set aside blocks of land which conk, onlv ho balloted for by returned soluier.s.” —(Wellington). Mr jl. A. Nivens (v, ellington) sa. • that the matter had been bciore many cont'ereu'.es and. ban been i'-entiomu in. the Governor's speech. It &o->. . | f . a suitable thing tor the present conference to endorse the ex-heme. JL moved the first remit. Mr G- Gardner (Norm Canterhiny ) pointed "out that many soldiers Knee nothing about the land. It would he better if they were gnen pi -ienn • •by being reinstated m men olu tIOUS. He suggested lout the and third remits be.-stiuen out ano the second only considered, Mr Nivens said that ho knev » oaSs in the Wairarapa wnere soldiers had gone abroad after having put yi: applications to ballot lor iano L-‘ billot had boon postpone a an n • soldiers’ applications nad i.*p?n When it was held they had pijactn-a hy been penalised. C-onsiderahie. mug nation had been aroused in me 0.tr "otlier delegates insisted that all tin ,-ivil rights of the soldiers aotom should ho conserved and expresses t.v opinion that young men at tne no.:. Kfionld be allowed to take part .:. every- land ballot through the.r rem lives. . , , The first resolution was -a* i- *• unanimously. , - ... \o. 2 was passed with entuusn--.m. "it was universally recognised t:ia tiie country owed a duty to mo.se me; ‘ -who were defending its shores. The third remit, simnar «-o t-« . see®nd, was witndi a>i n.