LAND FOR SETTLEMENT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 March 1925, Page 5

LAND FOR SETTLEMENT.

ON EASY TERMS.

BIG CANADIAN PROJECT.

BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION -COPYRIGHT NEW YORK, March 24. Colonel John Dennis, chief commissioner of the department of colonisation and development for the Canadian Pacific Runway, sails for Europe to-day to start a movement which is expected to bring several hundred thousand new settlers to Canada this year as a result < . of the present limitations under the im- ' migration laws of the United States. \ Fifteen Canadian agents are abroad-ex-pediting the emigration movement principally from Scandinavian countries, and especially Denmark. . Fifty thousand acres of farm lands in Wtestern Canada await development. A great influx of colonists is expected is the result of the completion of the immigration project at Uassano, near Calgary where the Row River has been dammed at a cost of 16,(XX),000 dollars. : The Lethbridge irrigation district is also being opened, which makes hundreds of thousands of acres ready for immediate settlement. Last year the Canadian Pacific alone handled 66,00.') colonists by boat and rail, and will probably carry 100,000 this year. There are indications also of a large migration from the United States to western Canada following the drop during the war. Neither the Canadian Government nor the railway company aid colonists ro reach Canada, but unite to make it easy to acquire farms after arrival. Each has spent approximately 600,000,. 000 dollars on colonisation. The land within the irrigation districts will sell from 46 to 60 dollars an acre, while other land costs from ten to twenty dollars an acre. The payment of 200 dollars yearly over 64 years makes the colonist a landowner/