SETTLERS FOR VICTORIA.
WERE IMMIGRANTS MISLED! ' ' By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received July 2, 5 p.m. London, July 1. in the House of Commons Mr. MaeVcagh asked whether the Government was aware that Victorian official literature held out inducements to settlers in irrigation districts, assuring them of immunity from loss in dry seasons, and that the irrigation had failed, the Government or the Water Commission having gambled on chance rain and lost. He also asked whether steps had been. taken to recompense British settlers misled by the official prospectus. Mr Bonar Law, in reply, said he believed the statement that any Victorian Government publication eliminated risk was without foundation. The provision ot water was made on the basis of the lowest river flow record. The recent drought had produced a new record, and tbo Government had suspended the rent triennum by way of compensation.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 July 1915, Page 4
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142SETTLERS FOR VICTORIA. Taranaki Daily News, 3 July 1915, Page 4
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