MKIGRANTS FROM HOME.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20217, 30 March 1929, Page 11

MKIGRANTS FROM HOME.

SETTLEMENT SUGGESTIONS. WHAT CANADA IS DOING. Australian Press Association-United Service LONDON. March 27. The cabled reports of the meeting of the Development and Migration Committee in Australia have brought assisted migration to the front. Writing in the Empire Review Mr. Jorian Jenks, a wel.-known Oxford don, suggests large-scale land companies for establishing groups of settlers. He says this would effect enormous savings in mass production and farm-making. Migrants would work for the company until the land was ripe for subdivision. At the same tinje they would build roads, schools and bridges. Commissioner David C. Lamb, of the Salvation Army, writing in the same magazine, says the army already has transferred 200,000 migrants to the Dominions. The failures are not 1 per cent. A migrating family cost £l2B. It is proposed to transplant 1000 other families within four years, for wElc'h purpose the commissioner appeals for £15,000 to supplement the official grants. He warns Australia that it is not wise always to reckon her prosperity on the sheep's back. The Overseas Settlement Deparlment announces that the Canadian Governmenthas undertaken to place in guaranteed farm employment this year 6000 single men trained at the Ministry of Labour's agricultural centres;. also an additional number of suitable single men from the depressed mining areas. For'the latter the British Government is to find the funds, j