AGRICULTURAL COLONIES.
V ♦- TRAINING THE UNEMPLOYED. United Press Association—By Eleotrio Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, March 3. Mr John Burns made a sympathetic reply to a deputation urging the selection of unemployed with aptitude for agricultural work, training them, and liter a successful trial settling them and their families for two years on small holdings connected with a labour colony. ' . Dr Paton, of Nottingham, the originator of the deputation, suggested that a portion of the development fund Bhould be applied to the establishment of a colony. Lord Oarrington said he considered that it was important that men of agricultural experience drifting to the towns'should he enabled to return to the country.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9789, 4 March 1910, Page 1
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