Land Settlement for Ex-Service Men 



Granted a sound system, it would still 

 have been preferable to have had experi- 

 mental colonies, and to have developed 

 settlement gradually ; but this course will 

 scarcely be possible. If the demand for land 

 is great it will come during the first three 

 years after the conclusion of peace, and it 

 will have to be met at once or potential 

 settlers will be lost to the United Kingdom. 

 On the whole therefore a bold policy will be 

 the wisest. 



Although the Land Settlement Commis- 

 sion would concern itself altogether with 

 land settlement in the United Kingdom, still 

 the bigger problem of imperial settlement 

 would have to be kept in view. There 

 should be another Commission or Council, 

 possessing advisory and consultative powers 

 only, which would review the question of 

 land settlement throughout the Empire, and 

 would endeavour to guide migration to the 

 lands most in need of settlement. It would 

 endeavour to bring about an understanding 

 between the Home Government and the 

 Dominion Governments, and the Dominion 

 Governments mter se. It would endeavour 



