EMPIRE FARMS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLIII, Issue 92, 1 June 1917, Page 6

EMPIRE FARMS.

The founding of an Empire Farm in Canada is put forward by the Empire Resources Development Committee in illustration of its scheme for reducing tho National Debt. It points out that 200,000,000 acres purchased from the Dominion Government at £1 an acre and sold again 20 years later, after development, at £2O an acre, would redeem the whole of the National Debt of £4,000,000,000 and at the same timo attract to Canada a great army of taxpayers who would be an enormous asset. If only £lO, or even £5. per acre were obtained, the scheme still holds great possibilities which would simultaneously enhanco tho credit of the Empire and the strength and wealth of Canada.