EMPIRE SETTLEMENT

Evening Star, Issue 18714, 16 August 1924, Page 6

EMPIRE SETTLEMENT

OVERSEAS COMMITTEE’S REPORT. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, August 15. A select committee of the House of Commons reports that Parliament voted £360,000 for the year ended March, 1923, for expenditure under the Empire Settlement Act, Of this sum the Overseas Settlement Committee spent only £35,000, and the unexpended balance will revert to the Treasury. The Overseas Settlement Committee informs tie Australian ’ Press Association that its estimates for all the dominions comprised—assisted passages, £200,OCO; land settlement and child migration training schemes, £50,000 each; toialling £350,000. The dominions' schemes required only £35,000 for assisted passages instead of the estimate of £200,000; while the committee was not called upon to spend a penny on the other schemes. Probably when the accounts are completed for the financial year ended March last, the results will be similar to those of 1923. Although the Overseas Committee had funds to assist dominion land settlement, the funds were not utilised, perhaps because the dominions either did not develop the projected schemes or were financing them themselves. Not a single claim was received for a contribution towards settlement except for assisted passages.—A. ond N.Z. Cable, A MISSION TO CANADA. OTTAWA, August 14. Tho Canadian (Government welcomes tho investigation which an Overseas Settlement party, including Miss Margaret Bondfield, M.P., will make soon in Canada. The Immigration Department has offered to facilitate inquiry into any phase of Canadian development and the conditions of farm labor. Tho alleged ill-treatment of British boys on farms will probably be, under review.—Reuter.