SERIOUS ALLEGATION
SETTLEMENT CONDITIONS. BRITISH IN VICTORIA. A PETITION TO THE KTNG. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE. This Day. Serious breaches of the terms of the agreement under which they settled on the land in Victoria were alleged by members of a deputation representing the Overseas Settlers’ Association and the Imperial Ex-Service League, which waited on the Minister of Bands (Mr Bailey). Requests were made for the establishment of a public board of inquiry to investigate the conditions on which British settlers asserted they had been induced to leave England to settle in Australia. One member of the deputation declared that the plan under which settlers came to Australia was a confidence trick on a grand scale. A deputation from the Association later waited on the Governor and presented a petition addressed to the King, stating that the complaints made by settlers to the Victorian Government had been consistently ignored or set aside.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 155, 12 April 1930, Page 7
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