19 Feb 1915 Jahr - Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act - passed

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The Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act 1915 created a system to provide farm settlement schemes and vocational training to First World War veterans. Farmland was allocated by a ballot system, mainly to Pākehā soldiers, as Māori veterans were assumed to have tribal land already available to them. More than 10,500 men were assisted onto the land by 1924, with another 12,000 helped to buy or build houses in towns and cities. However, land for settlement was often selected regardless of the soldiers’ own wishes or farming experience. Many of these farms were on marginal or remote land and they often failed to provide the returns their settlers hoped for.

Source: https://teara.govt.nz/en/veterans-assistance/page-2

Maori veterans were not accorded the same economic rehabilitation and land access as other veterans:

Source: https://forms.justice.govt.nz/search/Documents/WT/wt_DOC_137836128/Wai%202500%2C%20A248.pdf

Hearn attempted to find out how many Māori returned servicemen who were able to access
housing loans under the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act 1915, but with little success. No
published information is available, requiring researchers to trawl through the records of
regional Land Board minutes to find evidence of successful Māori applications. In 2009,
Ashley Gould was able to identify just three Māori veterans who applied to the Wellington
Land Board for housing loans, using surnames to identify Māori. Hearn notes that some Māori
applicants may have had European surnames.

Source: https://www.hud.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/Documents/Wai-2750/Historical-Maori-Housing-Wai-2750-A009.pdf

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