EX-SOLDIER SETTLERS.
COMPLAINTS IN VICTORIA,
ALLEGED MISREPRESENTATION.
MELBOURNE, April 19.
Serious breaches of the terms of agree* ment under which British ex-servicemen settled on land in Victoria were alleged by members of a deputation representing the Overseas Settlers' Association m and the Imperial Ex-Service League, which wailed on the Minister of Lands, Miv Bailey.
Requests were made for the establishment of a public board of inquiry to investigate the conditions under which' the British settlers claimed to have been induced to leave England to settle in Australia.
One member of the deputation declared that the plan under which the settlers came to Australia was a confidence trick on a grand scale. The deputation from the' association later waited on the Governor, Lord Somers, and presented a petition, addressed to the King, stating that complaints mado by settlers to the Victorian Government had been consistently ignored or set aside.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20539, 14 April 1930, Page 11
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