SETTLEMENT COMMISSION REPORT
SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS
TO SOLDIERS
(By Cubic—Press Association.— Copyright.)
(Keceived 5.30 a.m.)
LONDON, June 23
The South African Land Settlement jj^minission appointed during the last session of Parliament on the motion of Mr H. 0. Arnold Foster, has just issued its report.
The report states that unless strenuous efforts arc made to establish a thoroughly British population in the conquered States the sacrifices of war will be absolutely wasted.
\. The Commissioners advise compulsory acquisition of private land for settlement on the lines adopted in New Zealand.
Approved soldiers, they say, ought to be given farms of 100 to 5000 acres and assisted to stock them, and they should be subject to Home and military obligations.
Purely military settlements are declared to be undesirable, but the liberal employment of soldiers upon railways is urged; also the founding of military horse breeding establishments. Up to last November 7000 British soldiers had applied for permission to remain in South Africa.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 148, 24 June 1901, Page 5
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