LADS AS SETTLERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 184, 25 October 1927, Page 16

LADS AS SETTLERS

IMMIGRATION SCHEME EFFORTS OF ANGLICAN CHURCH Immigration based on a sound economic policy deserved greater support, said the Rev. G. C. Cruickshank. yesterday, when he was appealing to Synod on behalf of the church immigration scheme. Mr. Cruickshank said the scheme had been promoted as the result of an appeal by both the Church and the State and it had received every assistance from the Government. It was realised that any effort to swell the country's population without due regard to conditions was futile. Positions on farms were always ready for the new settlers on arrival, but the committee washed its hands entirely of any youth who left the country and went to live in the town where, it was perfectly clear, he would not be welcome or useful. The Rev. Jasper Calder said the City Mission was trustee for a farm of 1.300 acres some, distance from Auckland, and he was prepared to offer it to the Immigration Committed. He had approached the committee, but it was unable to accept the offer, as it had no capital with which to commence such a scheme. If some effort were made by some publicspirited person to give the necessary funds, it would be possible to promote a scheme for the benefit of the whole community. .