EMPIRE SETTLEMENT
MIGRANTS FOR DOMINIONS. NUMBER ASSISTED SINCE 1922. OVER 300,000. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.) (British Official Wireless.) llceived March 30, 11.5 a.m. RUGBY, March 29. Speaking at Nottingham last night on the subject of Empire settlement, Mr L. C. Amery, Secretary for the Dominions, stated that under various schemes over 300,000 persons had been assisted to go to the Dominions since the Empire Settlement Act was passed in 1922.
In the last four years the figure was 215,000, which was exclusive of 170,000 who had gone out unassisted.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 102, 30 March 1929, Page 9
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