PL AN FOR COLONISING WESTERN. LANDS.
. . ; 3JONDON, Jan. 11. • The Royal Institute. yesterday listened fa a schen^Q for.c^lQn.isation of the. vast v untilled wnpat lariHs of the western pro-. Winces of^pajuada tliigQiigh the joint cooperation,' ,b^, t&e Imperial and Canadian ... , ' ■'' ■. .'.'. . .. • . f^jMr. Wilson Fox, M.P,.,. chaiiman of the. Emph ; e Resources ..Committee, was the speaker, and he declared. thero were 2(X)>P0O,00O acros in- . the provinces of Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Uoliiinbia". which could .he so utilised and r thus solve, to a lai'ge extent, the pre.seht. world food shortage. 1. $iri Fox suggested that th© Governments take oYer these lands,: make them fit," for - pqltivatibn and easy of access) ;bu|id .elevators^; joads and .railways where; necessary.^- ahd^ihen resell; the lands at .^.price. commensurate .with their, increased va1ue.., ...:..-: ...-■ • ■■ ~- ' -,- He said this land could be procured adjacent to the, United States border, and h£ predicted that settlers from that country would flock to thenew improved areas 'and would 'be willing to pay big u'ices* He predicted that within a score of yeai3Lj,he Einpire, would, not only have solved the food' questibn' v vbvit would have 1 Triped out the national 'debit:
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14534, 20 February 1918, Page 4
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