TRAINING EMIGRANTS FOR THE LAND
BRITAIN READY TO PAY SUBSIDIES.
LONDON", 2nd August. Colonel Buckley, Parliamentary Secretary of the Department of Overseas J-ra.de, received a deputation from a conference of public authorities, suggesting, that the Government should subserve an amount equal to' public subscriptions in order to give rudimentary training in agriculture to enable linemployed British subjects to become useful emigrants to the Dominions. Mi ss Wileman said the Governments of Canada and bouth Africa were, willing to send men to train -colonists. The money' required could be raised. . i ; . .. .
_ The "Morning J> O st ?> says Colonel Buckley In effect relied : "fe that cge we will put down pound for pound;- adding that a thousand people were on the books anxious to emigrate to Australia but the Federal authorities had cabled that tliey could not all be taken at present The crux of the problem was the number of newcomers th.c Dominions could ab/sorb.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 29, 3 August 1923, Page 7
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154TRAINING EMIGRANTS FOR THE LAND Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 29, 3 August 1923, Page 7
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