80 GREAT BRITAIN AND IREI^AND - AGRICTJXTURAI, ECONOMY IN GENE RAX, 



vSome capital will be necessary for emigration to almost every country 

 in which the settlement of the soldiers and sailors is contemplated. The 

 amount needed varies from a very small sum in the Prairie Provinces of 

 Canada, Ontario and New Brunswick to £i,ooo or £1,500 in the Union 

 of South Africa and Rhodesia. In some cases the land is granted freely; 

 and in most other cases paj'ment for it is distributed over a number of years, 

 varjdng from five — during which the settler must reside on his holding 

 and clear 15 acres, building a house in the first eighteen months — in Que- 

 bec, to thirty in Australia. The oversea governments or the agricultural 

 credit banks are ready to advance money for improvements at a moderate 

 rate of interest ; and suggestions for the expenditure of money by the 

 home government in the form of advances of capital were considered by the 

 committee. The amount of capital needed by an emigrant is thus smaller 

 than at first sight appears. 



A general consensus of opinion among witnesses before the committee 

 was in favour of the preference of married men among the ex-soldiers 

 and sailors for settlement overseas. The committee emphasize the 

 need to facilitate the emigration of women relatives of these men, of 

 widows and orphans of soldiers and sailors, and of other women who 

 may be displaced after the war. They consider the emigration of 

 women to be essential to all effective settlement of the empire; and 

 go so far as to state that they consider grants of money enabling the emigra- 

 tion of wives, children, other women relatives and fiancees of the men to 

 be more justified than grants which would help only themselves. 



In every case the over<^ea governments must be satisfied that the im.- 

 migrants to their territories are persons whom they are prepared to wel- 

 come. 



§ 5. P1.ACES OF SETTLEMENT. 



The preceding table shows the conditions offered to discharged soldiers 

 and sailors settling in various parts of the empire. 



