LAND SETTLEMENT
BRITISH UNEMPLOYED WORK OF CARNEGIE TRUST - British Wireless RUGBY, March 6 The chairman of the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, Lord Elgin, referred at the annual meeting yesterday to the success of land settlement of the unemployed. He said that in the Trust's budget for the years 1936 to 1940 an allocation of £150,000 was made for Land settlement and up to the end of last year a total of £68,000 had been paid in grants. The association now controlled 25 estates comprising 11,000 acres. It had provided for the establishment on small holdings of about 1400 families, or about 7000 persons, all of whom had been taken from specially depressed areas.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22981, 8 March 1938, Page 11
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113LAND SETTLEMENT New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22981, 8 March 1938, Page 11
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