OVERSEAS SETTLEMENT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 16 August 1924, Page 5

OVERSEAS SETTLEMENT

(By Eleotrio Telegraph.— OovyritttU.) (Australian and N.Z. CabL Association.', LONDON, August 15. The House of Commons Select Committee reports that Parliament voted. £350,000 for the year ended March 1923, for expenditure under the Empire Settlement Act, whereof the Overseas Settlement Committee spent only £35,000, tho balance unexpended reverting to the treasury. The Overseas Committee informs the Australian Press Association that its estimates for all the dominions comprised assisted passages £200,000 and land settlement and child, migration training schemes £50,000 each, totalling £350.000. The dominions schemes required only £35,000 for assisted passages, instead of the estimated £200,000, while the committee was not called upon to spend a penny on other schemes. Probably when the accounts are completed ’for tlie financial year ended March last the results will be similar to 1923, although the overseas committee had ample funds to assist the dominions. The land settlement funds were not utilised, perhaps because the dominions either did not develop .the projected schemes or were financing themselves. Not a single claim was received for a. contribution towards settlement except for assisted passages. OTTAWA, August 14. The Canadian Government, welcomes the investigation whicli an overseas settlement party, including Miss Margaret Bondfield, M.P., will make soon in Canada. The Immigration Department offered to facilitate enquiry into any phase of Canadian development or conditions of farm labour. The alleged illtreatment of British boys on farms will probably he under review.