NEW ZEALAND AND WORLD WAR ONE
SOLDIER SETTLEMENTS
KAIRANGA, PALMERSTON NORTH, MANAWATU

To give returning soldiers a new start after the First World War the New Zealand Government made purchases of land under the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act 1916.

These blocks were subdivided into sections and the offered to returned soldiers

The following were the soldiers and the farms that they won by ballot. Some soldiers did not stay long and the farms were offered to other returned soldiers hence more than one name for a farm number.

For further information see the book - Nga Tangata Me Te Whenua - Kairanga - An Alternative and Critical Look Into the Origins of a Manawatu Rural District by Richard Mildon (Massey University 2002 ISBN 047308239X)

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