BRITISH SETTLERS
CONDITIONS IN VICTORIA. COMPLAINTS TO, MINISTER. INQUIRY REQUESTED. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received April 12, 10.50 a.m. MELBOURNE, April 12. Serious breaches of the terms of the agreement under which they settled on the land in Victoria are alleged by members of a deputation representing the British Overseas Settlers’ Association and Imperial Ex-Service League, which waited on the Minister of Lands, Mr Bailey. Requests were made for the establishment of public board of inquiry to investigate the conditions which the British settlers elaimed they had been induced to leave in England to settle in Australia. • One member of the deputation declared that the plan under 'which settlers came to Australia was a “confidence trick on a grand scale.” A deputation from the association later waited on the Governor and presented a • petition addressed to the King, stating that the complaints of tire settlers to the Victorian Government had been consistently ignored, or set aside.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 116, 12 April 1930, Page 9
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