EMPIRE ACTIVITIES
THE MARKETING BOARD MIGRATION AND SETTLEMENT (Aust ralitm I ’ivS3 Assn. — United Service. i (licc.MVi'd Mini'll I I )1I -) LONDON, Man’ll 22. I'M' lln> lliinl successive year llie lull £} ,CGO,GCO for tii(> Empire' Marketing Di..ml (l oils not appear in the civil estimates, in winch this year £550,000 is set down, making JD1.550.0CG short in the votes for three years.
It is explained that the full amount can he voted in supplementary estimates if needed, in addition to the present vote, there is £350,000 unexpended to be earned forward, making available £900.000 from which the chief expenditure estimates are research and marketing £482,000, ami publicity £560,000. The gross estimate of expenditure for overseas settlement is £1,470,000, an increase of £50,000. The chief provisions are land settlement and development £615.000, assisted passages £692,000, settlement of migrants £65.000 and preliminary training £51,000. Provisions affecting New Zealand include the l-e-vote. of £SOOO for advances to settlers on then: own farms, £40,000 for assisted passages, and a grant of £20,000 for child migration.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16908, 23 March 1929, Page 6
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171EMPIRE ACTIVITIES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16908, 23 March 1929, Page 6
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