From Ship to Farm.
AUSTRALIAN SETTLEMENT IMMIGRATION LEAGUE AFFAIR. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyeighxj [United Press Association.] (Received 9.30 a.m.) Sydney, February 13. The British Immigration League is [establishing a company to buy estates in New ‘South Wales to erect homes and farm buildings, to clear, fence, and make ready, so that immigrant farmers can go straight from the ship to the farms. Mr Ca ston, secretary of the movement, leaves for England in April, and hopes to have £IOO,OOO available. The company will be called the Australian Settlement, Limited. The profits of shareholders will he limited to six per cent. It is proposed to sell farms on easy terms spreading over a long period. There will he no payments of the principal for the first live years.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 37, 13 February 1914, Page 5
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126From Ship to Farm. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 37, 13 February 1914, Page 5
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