OVERSEA SETTLEMENT
A DISAPPOINTING YEAR
(Received 1.47 p.m.) LONDON, February 19. Civil Service accounts for 1924-25 show how largely below the Overseas Settlement Department's hope actual migration was. Following are the respective figures:— Land settlement: Authorised, £107,000; expended, £4OOO. Assisted passages: Authorised, £735,000; expended, £389,000." , Settlement of migrants: Authorised, £25,000; expended, £20,'000. . - Training migrants: Authorised, £27,500; expended, £6750. • In the case of Australia, it is explained .that a large increase was expected, but migration decreased by 2700, and £264,2(37 available as loans was not required. New Zealand's increase of £5044 in expenditure was not as much as expected. —A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 20 February 1926, Page 4
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