EX-NAVAL RATINGS
A MIGRATION SCHEME. EARL BEATTY INTERESTED. (Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, January 25. (Received Jan. 25, at 10 p.m.) The Overseas Settlement Committee has enlisted the co-opcvation of the Ministry of Labour for Earl Beatty for the promotion of a migration scheme embracing ex-naval ratings who have completed itj years’ service. Their age is 05. A vocational training establishment u> already in existence at Portsmouth, where handy men are turned out, and it is now proposed to supplement this with rand training. . The migration authorities advocate village communities in the Dominion, in which both the handy men and the land trainees would settle co-operatively. H is claimed that their physical fitness and their adaptability are superior to that if other migrants. The naval authorities point out the desirability of locating the naval men where they would be able to complete their reservist training and oualify for the gratuity of £IOO when 40, in addition to the marriage allowance.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20316, 26 January 1928, Page 9
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