THOUSANDS OF MIGRANTS
EMPIRE SETTLEMENT WORK
Sy Cable. —Press Association. — -Copyright. Reed. noon. LONDON, Monday. In the House of Commons, the Secretary of State for the Dominions, Mr Amery, in answer to a question, the families who were assisted to migrate under the Empire Settlement Act last year totalled 8,029, comprising 31.690 persons. The total of individual migrants as- . Mated was 63,027. The total expenditure on overseas settlement last year £ 1.337,097, of which £269.000 was recoverable.
In addition to the Empire Settlement Act expenditure, the Ministry of Lub0UI ’ spent £37,000 in testing and train- **' Prospective migrants.—A. and N.Z.Sun.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 308, 20 March 1928, Page 9
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98THOUSANDS OF MIGRANTS Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 308, 20 March 1928, Page 9
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