ASSISTED MIGRATION

Evening Star, Issue 20136, 28 March 1929, Page 8

ASSISTED MIGRATION

OXFORD DON’S SUGGESTION LARGE-SCALE LAK’D CGKPAKIES Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON. Marcli 27. (I’cccivcd March 26, at 10.10 a.in.) Tho return of Sir Arthur Dnckham and Sir Hugo Hirst and the cabled reports of the meeting of the Development and Migration Committee have brought assisted migration to tho front'! Dr J. -leaks, a, well-known Oxford don, suggests large-scale land companies tor establishing groups ot settlers, thus ofleeting enormous savings in mass production, the migrants to work for the company until the land is ripe for subdivision, simultaneously building, roads, schools, and bridges. Commissioner Lamb says the Salvation Army has already transferred 200,000 persons to the dominions. 'The failures are not J. per cent. in migrate a family cost £l2/. It was proposed to transplant I,UOO other families within four years, for which he appeals for £Io,OOO to supplement the official grants. Ho warns Australia that it is unwise always to reckon her prosperity as being on the sheep’s back. —Australian Press Association.