MOVING OVERSEAS

Evening Star, Issue 18280, 21 May 1923, Page 6

MOVING OVERSEAS

EMPIRE SETTLEMENT SCHEME.

NEW ZEALAND INACTIVE,

LONDON, May 8. The Sydney ‘ Sim’s ’ special representative has been informed' that Sir George Fuller’s migration scheme is based on the New South Wales agreement announced last November. It provides for the same amount for Federal loans (£6,000,000), and includes the same settlement areas and public works. It differs, however, in that Britain will now contribute one-third of the interest on the loans for five years, leaving the Commonwealth and New South Wales to provide one-third each. New South Wales previously paid two-thirds. Britain will guarantee £250 for each settler, plus half tho cost, up to £SO each, of training men and boys. The agreement in this respect hardly differs from tho Victorian scheme, which gives Victoria a loan of £SOO for each settler; but a big advantage is tho interest arrangement, -which means that Britain will contribute £500,000, or onethird ' of the interest, at 5 per cent, on £6,000,000 for five years. The scheme will bo submitted for tho Commonwealth’s approval, and tho new Victorian proposals are certain to be presented immediately.

The Victorian Premier, Mr H. W. Lawson, during an interesting tour of Scotland l , noted that Canadian migration agents were embarking practically whole villages. Now Zealanders in England; fear that tho dominion is likely to be badly left regarding migration assistance, because tho greater part of the £3,000,000 available under the Empire Settlement Act has already been allotted to New South Wales, Victoria, West Australia, and Canada, and tho fund will shortly he exhausted'.

New Zeal and seems to be officially idle; and the same applies to South Australia, Tasmania, and Queensland.