EMPIRE SETTLEMENT
ACHIEVEMENTS UNDER ACT, British Official Wireless. RUGBY, March 2&, Speaking at Notthingham last night on Empire settlement, Mr Leopold Am pry, Secretary for. tho Dominions, said that under the various schemes over three hundred thousand persons had been assisted to go to tho Dominions since tho Empire Settlement Act was passed in 1922. In the last four years tho figure was 215,000, exclusivo of 170,00.0 who had gone, out UR&ssistGdi During the 1929 season the Canadian Government has undertaken to place in guaranteed farm employment in Canada 6000 single men who have been trained in agricultural work • at- the Ministry of Labour’s training centres in this country.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6873, 1 April 1929, Page 7
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