76 LAND SETTLEMENT & EDUCATION 



to give ex-Service men a share in the land of the 

 country for which they have so vaUantly fought, 

 there is the greater problem of land settlement at 

 home, and this again is part of the all-important 

 problem of settlement and migration within the 

 Empire. 



Here is a diagram and a table. The table tells us 

 that the white agricultural population of the British 

 Empire is made up as follows : — 



BRITISH EMPIRE 



United Kingdom 

 Canada 

 South Africa . . 

 Australia 

 New Zealand 



Total 



8,000,000 



4,000,000 



300,000 



800,000 



300,000 



13,400,000 



That is to say, all the men, women and children 

 living on and by the land, in an Empire which 

 occupies one-quarter of the land surface of the Globe, 

 total only some thirteen and a half millions, while 

 in the small area of European Germany the agri- 

 cultural population exceeds twenty millions. 



Unpeopled and undeveloped land in our Oversea 

 Dominions is a source of great weakness from the 

 point of view of defence. Our depleted agricultural 

 population and half - utilised land in the United 

 Kingdom is a source of great economic loss. If we 

 are to put the land of the United Kingdom to a 

 fuller use, if we are to consolidate the Empire, 

 we must have a larger agricultural population both 

 at home and in the Empire. The question is— how 

 to obtain it ? 



