ATTRACTING SETTLERS.
Received January 22, 9.53 a.m. LONDON, January 21. Mr E. T. Scammell, th> West Australian Immigration Commissioner, in.the course of a lecture at the United Service Institution, advocated the commutation of naval and military pensions before the age of fifty, thus enabling the pensioners to provide capital to settle on the land in the colonies. Mr Scammell outlined a scheme dealing with finance'and with safeguards for protecting the perma-. nent interests of pensioners, and insisted that the co-operation of the colonial Governments was essential to the success of the project. In the discussion which followed the lecture considerable approval was expressed of Mr Scammell's proposal.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3099, 23 January 1909, Page 4
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107ATTRACTING SETTLERS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3099, 23 January 1909, Page 4
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