PEOPLE FOR EMPTY LAND.
SHOULD BEGIN AT HOME. MR MACDONALD ON EMIGRATION LONDON, Thursday. ‘‘They want to export you like coal,” said Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, speaking,at Aberavon with reference to overseas settlement. He said in was proposed to take families and pay money for exporting them. If a proper scheme were devised, with the co-operation of the Labour parties in the Dominions, to take British families for proper settlement, lie certainly woulds.not..,object. He did not oppose emigration, "but the emigrant niusiL ndf;l?&‘ PSocb to boat down wages in the Dominions. If : the GovewisftSUC could. ’ give "fiftyfifty ; grants to settle people in the Dominions, why should not the same thing be done at 'Home?, What was wanted was a great national scheme of land settlement in Britain. .Thgre /must; be great- training centres, to settle people-on the land in groups ..of a t least 200 families. —Reuter.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 11 December 1925, Page 5
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