AN EMIGRATION SCHEME.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 124, 2 June 1910, Page 5

AN EMIGRATION SCHEME.

TO SEND THOUSANDS TO CANADA.

•V LONDON, June 1. At the Emigration Conference, $tes&rs Allan Brothers submitted a scheme for sending to Canada .2000 pioneers and their wives and 4UUJ children in 1910, and 5000 men and their wives and 10,000 children in subsequent years, each .provided with fcxiedit for the equipment of a homestead; the whole cost, including a fidelity bond, to amount to £150 per family, which would be advanced at 7 per cent, interest, repayable in , seven" years. The scheme could be iiamftistered upon a maximum credit «f £2 250,000. which would eventually fall below £i,OO D.OOO. The scheme would' provide 20,000 people, pay interest at the rate of 3 per cent., and furnish a reserve of £SO;QGD per annum, leaving £10,000 for administration in Britain. , , _, "Colonel Murray, of the Labor ExtShanees, central offices, stated that the Board of Trade was considering the relation of the Labor Exchanges ito emigration benevolently, and-was blso considering Allan Brothers scheme. This latter, resembled the «©ld crofters' cultivation scheme, which'was an undoubted success."