Land Settlement for Ex=Service Men 



Dominions, but impossible to do so in an 

 old country like Britain. The main prin- 

 ciples which are so necessary are sum- 

 marised under the following headings : 

 (i) Settlement in colonies rather than in 

 isolated units. 



(2) Ownership rather than tenancy. 



(3) The initial years to be made as easy 

 financially as possible. 



(4) Provision of easy access to capital. 



(5) Provision of effective and expert 

 guidance. 



(6) Development from the outset of co- 

 operation, or at all events of organized 

 collective buying and selling. 



There is no example in the United 

 Kingdom of a land settlement scheme where 

 all or even most of these fundamental 

 principles have been observed. We have 

 inclined to a system of tenancy rather than 

 of ownership, and of tenancy of an unusual 

 type, where the tenant pays into a sinking 

 fund which in the end will make the County 

 Council and not himself the owner of the 

 land. There is hardly an example in any 

 other country of a land settlement scheme 



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