PEOPLING THE PRAIRIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 262, 5 November 1928, Page 4

PEOPLING THE PRAIRIES.

As a result of negotiations successfully concluded between Lord Lovat, representing the British Government, and Dr. XV. J. Black, director of colonisation for the Canadian National Railways. 1000 British families are to he brought to Canada by the railway during the next two or three years under a land settlement scheme, a feature of which is that the settlers, when they take up land of their own. will be assisted with a loan from the British Government for the purchase of stock and equipment. The keynote of this plan and its best promise of success is that under the scheme of settlement proposed each; family will be required to secure Canadian experience, and no loan will be made until the family has demonstrated its fitness for Canadian farm life and has accumulated small savings sufficient, together with the loan from . the British Government, to enable it to start farming on its own account. Another agreement provides for the erection with the financial assistance of the | British Government of 100 farm cottages; in Western Canada for the accommodation ' of British families while they are securing Farming experience. It is proposed that nrrangements will be made with 100 •elected Canadian farmers to erect n cottage on each farm to house a British amily to lie employed by the farmer.