EMPIRE SETTLEMENT
THE. ANNUAL EXPENDITURE LONDON, Dec. 6. A White Paper explains the amending Empire Settlement Act, which extends over 115 years and provides for an annual expenditure not exceeding £1,500,000 instead of the previous maximum of £3,000,000, though actually it never exceeded £ 1,280,000. The average from 1923 to 1929 was only £BOO,OOO. The average estimated cost to the United Kingdom under agreed schemes of all kinds other than development or land settlement schemes is approximately £ll per assisted migrant.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23058, 8 December 1936, Page 9
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