PRINCIPLES OF LAND SETTLEMENT 



West is undoubtedly due to the rapid 

 spread of agricultural knowledge com- 

 bined with a bold and generous policy of 

 colonization. Other countries are now 

 learning the same lessons. The great 

 Dominions of the British Empire are 

 establishing Agricultural Colleges, and 

 reorganizing their Departments of 

 Agriculture ; but best of all they are now 

 beginning to realize that they hold their 

 vast and vacant lands, in trust, not for 

 themselves alone, but for all Humanity. 



And so we read recently that the 

 Premier of Western Australia, Sir New- 

 ton J. Moore, visited England. Inter- 

 viewed on arrival, he gave his simple 

 message : 



"We have 80,000,000 acres of some of 

 the finest land in the world waiting to be 

 peopled. For the man who wishes to 

 take up land the State offers him a pres- 

 ent of 160 acres. Then the Agricultural 

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