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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18013, 4 March 1924, Page 4

Relative to the group system of emigration, the "Glasgow comments: "Scotland, it is true, has always known the right Tray to colonise, and in the days when New Zealand's prosperity was founded by the migration of complete families from the Homeland, the idea of solitary pioneers pegging out claims in limitless forest land or bush would hare been scouted. Since then State aid to emigrants has more usually been granted to individuals, who have suffered the distress of isolation in the new land. A sensible reversion to the old principle of community settlement has, however latterly been made, and this month (.January) the first contingent of families chosen bv 'counties' will set sail in the Sophocles for Western Australia. Devon and Cornwall having been the first to make an agreement with West Australia, are to be allowed a quota of 20 families a month out of the 109 families West Australia is prepared to welcome every month under its group settlement scheme."