CANADA'S CALL OF EX-SOLDIERS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14703, 2 June 1920, Page 7

CANADA'S CALL OF EX-SOLDIERS.

(Bv Union Jack.). . , Are von a demobilised soldier of good or average education ? Are you-Icolv-ing for something to do ? Are you full of beans and buck and ambition f Have you any objection to taking off your jacket and working hard all .day for yourself, and family ? Do you think you could settle contentedly on a cattle, trrain. or fruit, farm selected by yourself with the Canadian Government as your commercial godfather ? Have Jou got £200? „,, • ~ ' If you can answer all these questions 'satisfactorily you may prepare to pack and book a free passage to the Land or Promise. ' - „ orir , A But if you have not got £2oo—and the odds are that you have not—the gate is still open. I know where you can get the money, not- as a loan,* but as a gift—a sort of warrant that, 11 you are the man who can stick it in peace as you stuck it in war, you shall most surely garner a plenteous harvest for a contented old age. . ' There is no catch in tins. The Canadian Government has made a . j S offer of farms and orchards with buildings, furniture, equipment, and stocK for ex-officers and men of hk® educational abilities who can satisfy* the Canadian representatives now in Jjoiiclon that they possess qualifications which justify their selection for this new Briefly, the scheme is that a selected candidate will receive a sum or £- • from a fund in this country, and -a tree passage to liis destination. The money is needed as his share of the neceisary capital, the Canadian Government finds the rest. For the maintenance. of the applicant while lie undergoes training on a model farm _ for about twelve months he will receive the. rate of wages. At the end of the probation he "will be put in "possession of •a-farm; in good goring condition," on which ™e Government* will have., spent about £2OOO V . ... ~ , . This money will be repaid by liistalments. but there will bo nothing of the Shvloek about the Canadian Government, for it will continue to act in the -capacity■" of guide, friend, and godfather. There will be no weary years of delving and" waiting, no crude homemade scanty for a home, and the cruel ' discomforts *of a pioneer to endu re. The question has been asked if. the | new farmer, trained and placed as I have described, can hope to earn money from the. beginning, and the answer is that an average man with an' average return for his labor can expect; to keep himself and family and make about .fifteen dollars at the end of his first farm- - - If .vou are attracted by the prospect, and if you da really believe that.,, you... are the" man for the job; and if, it is essential that you should have £2OO from 1 "the fund to 'I Jhave referred ippl-v to the OveT eas Apnomt-