“A CONFIDENCE TRICK”
LAND SETTLEMENT COMPLAINTS IN AUSTRALIA (Eloc. T«I. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received April 12, 11 a.m.) MELBOURNE., April 12. Serious breaches of agreement, under which they settled oil land in Victoria are alleged by members of a deputation, representing the British Overseas Sett lers’ Association and the Imperial Ex-Ser-\ice League, which waited on the Minister of Lands, Mr Bailey.
Requests were made for the establishment of a public hoard of inquiry to investigate the conditions under which British settlers claimed they had been induced to leave England to settle in Australia
One member of Hie deputation declared that the plan under which settlers came to Australia was a confidence trick on a grand scale
A deputation from the association later waited on the Governor, and presented a petition addressed to the King stating that complaints of the settlers to tin' Victorian Government had been consistently ignored or set aside. • -
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17233, 12 April 1930, Page 7
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