Full text: Industrial Transference Board report

(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
	        
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