A SPLENDID SCHEME.
GENERAL BOOTH GETS USE OF £IOO,OOO.
By telegraph, Press A'ss’n, Copyrigl Received 9.21 p.m., Dec. 20.
London, Dec. 20,
General Booth, in a letter to I£mg Edward, announces that George Herring has given the Salvationists tbo usa of one hundred thousand pounds, ultimately repayable at the rate of four thousand pounds annually for the benefit of the hospital fund, for the purposes of Home colonisation and settling some of the unemployed as peasant proprietors, each to receive five acres of suitable land, a oottage, stock, feed, implement’, and temporary provision for his family. Settlers repay tho outlay and interest in iostalt n f years.until be acquires the ownership, any profit from the scheme to form the nucleus of a permanent extension effort
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1631, 20 December 1905, Page 2
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125A SPLENDID SCHEME. Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1631, 20 December 1905, Page 2
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