COMPENSATION CLAIM

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18065, 17 April 1933, Page 5

COMPENSATION CLAIM

AUSTRALIAN MIGRANTS SEQUEL TO COMMISSION MELBOURNE, :April I.' The Royal Commission on migrant land settlement having found that settlers ‘ were justified in their complaints of misrepresentation by Commonwealth and State migrant representatives in London, counsel for the settlers, Mr G. U. Nathan, stated today that a great majority of the migrant settlers -would claim pecuniary compensation. • He also said that the settlers would look to the British, Commonwealth and Victorian Governments, each of which took a part in sponsoring the migration scheme, to see that justice was done to them. Other settlers would seek relief by way of . revaluation*. . Mr Nathan added that the report showed that the complaints of about 95 per cent of the settlers had been upheld. . - ... f The commission’s report says that the migrants were not parties to the migration agreements made between the Commonwealth and Victorian and Imperial and therefore they had no contractual rights m law. Thev had. however, in the commission’s opinion, a just claim on the State for the fulfilment of the ngreen“cSpies of the document have been sent to Canberra, and'ft summary! of the findings will be cabled to the British Government by Mr Crutchley, i ts re P' resentative in Australia. The report will also be considered by the Victorian Cabinet next wUek.