BRITISH SETTLERS
REQUIRED BY CANADA
(Australian Press Association.! (By Cable—Press Assn—Copyright.)
OTTAWA, October 12.
A Winnipeg message states that the Federal Minister of Immigration, Mr. Forke, announced his Department was giving serious consideration to a plan for the establishment of a flat passage rate of ten or twelve pounds for all British immigrants over seventeen years of age, thus eliminating the 'assisted passage scheme. He stated British settlers were preferred to Continental immigrants. Mr. Fork conferred with Mr. Bracken, Premier of Manitoba, in regard to Federal and Provincial plans for immigration.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 October 1928, Page 7
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