Thirty-Year Plan Urged
TO SETTLE EMPIRE’S VACANT SPACES. GENERAL HIGGINS POINTS TO DUTCH EXAMPLE. United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, Dec, 30. In a letter to the Times, General Higgins, of the Salvation Army, urges a 30 years’ programme of Empire settlement, instead of the spending of hundreds of millions per annum in relieving able-bodied people in Britain. He contrasts the Dutch land reclamation schemes with the Empire’s failure to settle thousands of square miles of good, healthy lands in Australia and Canada, and declares ‘that the traditional genius of colonisation is still active with Holland. Can the same be said of the British Empire, ho asks.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6746, 2 January 1932, Page 8
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