PEOPLE FOR CANADA.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 188, 9 August 1924, Page 7

PEOPLE FOR CANADA.

■ ! AID FOR THE SETTLER. I MAKING FARMERS "WEI-COME. OTTAWA, August 8. | A new agreement, by which British ! settlers coming to Canada will receive ! financial aid from the British Govern-1 ' ment in actually settling on the land, jis reported to have 'been negotiated in j I London. i I In the past Britain has shared with! I Canada half the cost of transportation. llt is believed that the new scheme will ■ i bring to Canada the best possible type i of settlers. — (Reutcr.) ' DISGRTTNTLED HARVESTERS, j MINISTERIAL REFUTATION. I (Received 10.30 a.m.) EDMONTON (Alberta), August S. j Exaggerated stories of the conditions in Canada are taken to Britain by die- j jrruntled harvesters of last season. This,, it is contended in official circles, should j not prove a deterrent to carrying out a scheme to induce a certain number of young British people to go to M'berta for a six months' course in the schools of agriculture prior to seeking farms. : The Minister of Agriculture said that of 2500 or 3000 British harvesters who came to Alberta last year, more than half, remained. A majority of the others went' back ag they had intended to do. — (A. j and N.Z. Cable.) AMBASSADOR TO WASHINGTON (Received 11.30 a.m.) OTTAWA, August 8. The Premier announced that Canada's Ambassador to Washington ■will not he appointed for some time. He said he had nabody in mind for the post.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)