PRAIRIE HOME-STEADING.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 199, 11 August 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

PRAIRIE HOME-STEADING.

Offio'al returns just to hand show that in the month of March no fewer than 1061 free homesteads were taken up by settlers >'n the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan Alberta, and British Columlva. The free land grants involved nearly 170,000 acres. In addition to these homestead entries there have been many settlers taking up land by purchase from railway and other companies all over the Dominion from Nova, Scotia and New Brunswick to the Pacific. Many of the latter class ot immigrants have crossed the boundary from the United States. Of the five homesteads taker, up IS9 were :n Manitoba, 368 in Saskatchewan, and 480 in Alberta ; 108 of these entries were made bv English emigrants and 125) bv Americans The total shows a tallmg-off of oniv 353 free grants: of land as com pared with these of the corresponding month of 1915-a very remarkable result when it is remembered that the usual honiesteading class is practically all under arms, and that the muirtion factories, etc., in both Great Britain ;uul Canada are insatiable in their demand for workers, wd.le the Gannrli. an emigration propaganda -is suspended in consequence of the war.

CRIME AND THE CINEMA. YOUTHFUL JEWEL ROBBER BLAMES "THE,PICTURES.' Stron criticism of enema films which ■dorifv crime was uttered by Sir Robert Wallace, the chairman of London Sessions .wlien Herbert George Lest,«r, a youth'of 18, was charged with steali„,'r jewellery valued at 130 from his employers, the Goldsmiths and Silversnrtlis' Company. Lester, in extenuation of th? thett and an attempt to throw susp..eior, on his fellow assistants, pleaded that hj! had had been led astray by "tlic lectures." . . , ••While ordinary crmi.- has ile-rrea-<"d " said Sir Robert bullae?. " ; . V enono at the sessions has become amazed at the ever-iiM-renssns r.umher of hoys of honourable families who have l,rV placed in the dock on the most fA -trnordinary chages of larceny It is „„ ~„,, eU EWst : H2 that H is the evil nvnd only that is led astr,y. Pictures ~,.u < .vii'n-T crime cannot be niaceiMvcriin". vounj/ and impressionable minds without producing deplorable results ; ,,„l .omething ought to be done to provMit the exhibition "of films which aroi'.n incentive to crime."