IMPERIAL MIGRANTS
SETTLEMENT IN AUSTRALIA,
SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS MADE. PETITION TO THE KING. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel.—Copyright. (Received April 12, 10.40 a.m.) MELBOURNE, April 12. Serious breaches of terms of an agreement under which they settled on the land in Victoria are alleged by members of a deputation representing the Overseas Settlers’ Association and Imperial ex-Service League, which waited on the Minister of Lands, Mr Bailey.
•Requests were mado for the establishment of a public board of inquiry to investigate the conditions under which the British settlers claimed that they had been induced to leave England to settle in Australia. One member of the deputation declared that the plan under which the 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 the complaints of the settlers to the Victorian Government had been consistently ignored or set aside.
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17994, 12 April 1930, Page 7
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