VILLAGE SETTLEMENT IN VICTORIA.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 8717, 13 February 1894, Page 5

VILLAGE SETTLEMENT IN VICTORIA.

Mr Mclnlyre, the Victorian Minister for Lands, who recently visited this colony, was banqueted by his constituents at Mal_on. He claimed that his village settlements had beeu a success. He said there hid been altogether 125 settlements estah--hsfeed. The total area alienated for o«__.t_ad associations was 20,016 acres, Tk for 3 "settlement- 46,120 acres. - n. 6aver age area held by each person under ™' 12 acres, and under Part 11. 40 ___** or an average of rather less thau «» acres to each person. Some WO,COO souls had been placed on the •aad during five mouths. If it ' was . ""rtcesaary to retrench further the Govern*"s__t would do it rather than impose fresh terdeas of taxation on the people. Butter «P-rt was now a well-established industry, -"■ere was room for aa immense trade in «««•*, for which the dry climate was better teiied than that of New Zealand, where it j*o Been so successfully prosecuted, and the tj*«"*n meat industry would make Victoria J"*&P to the front. But iv order to establish »« prosperity of the country there must be «**{* freight on the railways. If not a otUungof profit was made, the people got* •*• money indirectly if cot directly.