"THEY MUST HUSTLE."

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 107, 11 June 1914, Page 7

"THEY MUST HUSTLE."

IMMIGRANTS FOR AUSTRALIA. COUNTRY HUNGERING FOR MEN. By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright(Received June 11, 9.1*5 a.m.) LONDON, June 10. At the annual meeting of the Central F -migration Board -Viscount Portman presided. Lord Haversham and other speakers referred to the different aspects of Imperial emigration, v Sir John Madden, Chief Justice; of Victoria, said that Australia was hungering for immigrants, but they must be people who can and do hustle. .

Mr Easton, of New South Wales, outlined the scheme to raise a million pounds for Australian settlements, providing ready-made homesteads and farms, and educating and assisting settlers. *

[A cable on February 13 stated that the British Immigration League was •establishing a company to buy estates in' New South Wales to erect homes and farm buildings, clear and fence the land, and make ready, so that immigrant farmers could go straight from the ship to their fafins. The name of the company is the "Australian Settlement, Limited," and the profits to shareholders are limited to 6 per cen..t'um. It is proposed to sell the farms on easy terms, spreading over a long iperiod," with no payment of principal during the first five years. Mr Easton, who was appointed secretary, left for England in April.]