(ii) Land Settlement.
122. Land settlement is an integral part of the conception of the
Empire Settlement Act. It is expensive in proportion to its imme-
diate results in the numbers to whom it gives a chance of a new
life, and expenditure on it should not be permitted to contract
other measures of migration. It is right, however, in our opinion,
that it should form the background to any organised and co-opera-
ive policy of migration between the British and Dominion Goverr-
ments. The Dominion Governments are concerned about the
development of their primary industry of agriculture which is
directly helped by land settlement schemes, and the appeal of
migration in this country is much stronger if there is in it an
ultimate chance of ownership of land, of self-dependence, in place
of employment for wages. If in the case of any of these land
settlement schemes for families, the absence of the Sums’ necessary
for the passage and for landing money is the only bar to the
acceptance of a family from the depressed areas, we consider that
the money required should be advanced.
123. Similarly, we attach importance to the recent arrangements
by which boys and young men going out to work for wages on
farms are encouraged to save their earnings in the knowledge that
after a few years, when they have gained sufficient experience to
start for themselves, the British and Dominion Governments will
add to their savings and thus enable them to buy their own farms.
B. TRAINING FOR MIGRATION OVERSEAS.
124. Additional training facilities may be required. In the case
of single men, it is clear from the evidence that has reached us
authoritatively from Canada and Australia, that the work of the
British Government in training industrial workers intensively for
a short period in the simple elements of farm work is on sound
lines and the Ministry of Labour should be authorised to open
new centres when required. It must be remembered that these
training schemes, which make a man more likely to receive a
long-term engagement, are not only valuable in increasing the
numbers eligible for assistance, but also serve to attract additional
men by supplying a. bridge between industrial employment and
work in agriculture. It is easier to persuade men to g0 overseas
to work on the land if they can be offered sufficient training to save
them from feeling foolish when they start.
125. For married men, the training facilities required are
limited by the openings that can be found for the man and his
family. But for certain T.and Settlement Schemes for families
some training may prove desirable. In such a case, and for other
families for whom openings can be found, we think that financial