CATHOLIC COLONISATION SOCIETY.

New Zealand Tablet, 30 January 1919, Page 35

CATHOLIC COLONISATION SOCIETY.

The Catholic Colonisation Society, U.S.A., the recognised national organisation for directing settlers, reports a very great number of applicants among Catholic people for lands in its various colonies. This organisation, having its central offices at Chicago, now has 26 colonies in 14 different States. Every colony tract has been carefully investigated by the society’s own experts. This fact, together with the high official standing of this organisation, gives the prospective settler the greatest confidence in the reliability of the reports and recommendations issued by the society. These facilities, offered the farm home-seeker by the society, together with the increased cost of living and the patriotic motive of many to “do their bit” to help increase the nation’s food supply, in a measure explain the great number of applications for farm lands made to this society. An encouraging feature is the great demand for lands in some of the Southern States, notably Arkansas, the society having received some 500 applications for lands in this State. These facts encourage the belief that the nation’s agricultural resources will not only be maintained, but increased, and the rich farm lands be made to produce abundant crops.