EMPIRE TOUR

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 2 August 1928, Page 5

EMPIRE TOUR

LORD LOVAT’S MISSION. TO ENCOURAGE MIGRATION. OVERSEAS SETTLEMENT SCHEME (British Official Wirewiss.} RUGBY, July 31. Lord Lovat, Parliamentary Undersecretary for Dominion Affairs and chairman of the overseas settlement committee, who will sail on Saturday lor a tour of Canada, New and Australia to discuss the provision of additional ianilities for settlement overseas, said yesterday that he hoped to be able to make satisfactory ar- V rangements for 21,090 miners and their dependents, whom the Government hoped to send overseas. He was going first to Canada, and when lie left that Dominion a representative of his department would return with full details of the arrangements made. They hoped to offer a very definite attraction to miners as settlers on the land. The (government had agreed to train and test them at training centres in the eastern area and in Scotland and Wales.

The Government had approved in principle the proposal that advances up to £IOO should be made to settlers from tiiis country who, after working oil farms lor a year or two to gain experience, and saving £IOO, took up land of their own. The Government was very anxious to encourage family settlement, and apart from the direct settlement scheme they hoped to work out schemes lor the provision of cottages on farms in Canada and Australia in which families could be housed while the men were working and gain- '' ing experience on the land before they settled on their own holdings. •