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partnership tenancy) is accepted as the aim. The demands made 

 in that case upon the new settlers are such that the less cash down 

 is asked for from them the better will be the prospect of success, 

 and the more is the new community likely to thrive. Lord Ernie 

 has set us an admirable example of how to do this at Maulden. 

 The work of settlement done in Germany, under the Provincial 

 " Commissions," and in Italy, Roumania and Serbia by the affittanze 

 collettive and their replicas, provides further guidance. In other 

 ways the American Commonwealths, Belgium, and to some extent 

 France, afford us useful leading. 



Another non-co-operative form of effective assistance applied to 

 organisation in country life is that adopted by our useful Allotment 

 Associations. These societies distinctly advocate and favour 

 co-operation among the settlers, for whom they provide allotments, 

 and, as one of their most active members, Mr. E. 0. Greening, has 

 recently explained in public print, they find their work speed best 

 where there is co-operation established. Yet they themselves are 

 not co-operative. They are composed of public-spirited philan- 

 thropists, who make an offering of their labour and guidance to 

 those who need such help for the relief of such persons and, at the 

 same time, for the benefit of the community. 



Looking at the whole question of organisation, no one surely can 

 help coming to the conclusion that in this province there is a great 

 work to be accomplished, to the achievement of which not only the 

 present agricultural interest, nor yet only the governing authorities, 

 but many besides will have to lend a helping hand, if it is to be done 

 as expeditiously and as thoroughly as one would wish to see it done. 



I have dwelt on the necessity of organisation and our tardiness in 

 resorting to it. Well, we have tried our hand at it, at any rate so 

 far as agricultural business is concerned. For in respect of " country 

 life " we have not yet got much beyond just playing with the subject 

 in our old-accustomed patronising way. For even our women's 

 institutes, though rightly being multiplied in number, have not yet 

 caught quite the practical tone of their American prototypes. 

 And, whatever we have done in respect even of agriculture, we have 

 unfortunately done in not quite the right way. And, with " Dora " 

 having entered into our political blood, State initiative, State 

 financing and State supervision and dictation being called in for 

 everything, there seems little prospect of our getting out of the old, 

 well-worn groove leading to disappointment. Rather does it 

 appear likely that we shall sink deeper and deeper in the anti-self- 

 reliant swamp : the absolute dependence upon State benefactions. 



