FARMS WITHOUT MONEY

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 31, 6 August 1923, Page 4

FARMS WITHOUT MONEY

AMERICAN COMMENT ON' Am THALIA'S IMMIGRATION POLICY

tiki A MaT A, u.stra]^' * the motto of the island-continent of . Oceana and Most of the Dominions and Crown Colonies of the British Empire demand that immigrant from other countries shaO possess sufficient funds to maintain them for a time. Victoria, the State adjacent to New South Wales, insists that intending settlers shall bring 1500 dollars with them; New South Wales proposes to make a landed proprietor out of the man whose possessions compnso a suit of clothes and a pair of shoes.

Agreement has been devised by the British Overseas Settlement Committee TVn V S llcs«ibetl '^ Sir George W. Jniller, Premier ol' New South Wales as tho most ambitious Australian migration and land settlement schomo ever attempted." Broadly, tbe problem may be synchronised into 6000 selected British emigrants, to be settled on farms of their own m New South Wales; practical training to bo available- for them • with airipio capital facilities on easy terms of repayment.

Under the Empire Settlement Act the Imperial Government, the Australian' Commonwealth Government, and the New South Wales Government agree as nm , ,C,° St ' wl"ch wiU come t0 30,000,----000 dollars for the public work neces™Z, t0 l)llePare the farms, while 15.----000,000 dollars will be required for advances to the settlers.

Upon arrival in New South Wales, the settlers and- their families will be dispatched to Government training farms, where men and boys will be thoroughly drilled in the requirements of farming under tho Southern Cross. During this probationary period allowance will be made to families. When proficient, the newcomers will" be settled on their holdings, with power to borrow' up to 1500 dollars from the rural bank They will reside on their own farms for three years, free from all monetary obligation to the Government, after which they will begin to pay for their earlier sustenance allowance.