SETTLERS WANTED.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 24 January 1929, Page 8

SETTLERS WANTED.

CANADA’S NEW SCHEME. CHANCE FOR BRITISHERS. Lord Lovat’s tour of Canada has borne fruit in a reeorganisation of our immigration policy, and an agreement with the British Government, which traverses the whole field of selecting, training, transporting, settling, anti financing immigration, under the most comprehensive scheme yet developed in and for- the Dominion (states the Ottawa correspondent of the Wellington “Evening Post”). For reasons not yet explained, the. whole of_ the provinces have nob become parties to the agreement between Canada and the Motherland. Only matters of detail remaiu to reconcile the wishes of the provinces and the Federal Government. The agreement is the most constructive contribution to the cause of inter-Empire migration, and should do something toward raising the number of British immigrants at> least equal to the influx from the Continent, where immigrants only cost Canada 6d per head. Synchronising with the agreement is the announcement of the fare of £lB 15s for third-class passengers being reduced to £lO. The £2 ocean rate for the heads of families coming to work on the land is continued, as well as free, passages for the children of such families, and for boys and girls coming out under hte auspices of a recognised voluntary society. ENCOURAGEMENT FOR BOYS. Boy migration looms large in the new programme. There is provision for loans of £SOO each to them, when they reach tweny-one years, subject to conditions of thrift. The individual lacL must have saved £IOO to qualify for a loan, and liis savings must be available for establishing himself on a farm of liis own. jf re© passages are to be granted to boys between fourteen and nineteen, and girls under seventeen, coming lo provincial reception and distribution centres. ’ A migrant may, if ho <so desires, be examined free of charge by one of approximately 500 British doctors, or by one of the official doctors of the Canadian Government. Assisted passages at the prevailing rate of £2 to £B, according to destination in Canada, will be available for women household workers. Nominated assisted passages will be given families of men satisfactorily settled in Canada, even though the head of the family is not settled on the land. The rate is £3 Iss for adults, children under seventeen, free.

PROVISION OF HOUSING. . There will be no assisted passages for single men. Where they are not in a position to provide the whole of the £lO rate, it has been arranged for the British Government to provide loans to approved farm workers. The minimum wage for hoys settled on farms under provincial schemes is £2 al month with free board, lodging, washing, and mendingTo meet the need for housing accommodation, a scheme for the erection of cottages has been discussed with the Provincial Governments. A number of cottages are to be erected in Ontario for British families,, the cost being shared by the Dominion, Provincial and British Governments. Other Provincial Governments have the matter tinder consideration. A number of the Provincial Governments are co-operating in a tripartite arrangement for obtaining domestic work for women intending to settle in those provinces.