PENSIONER SETTLERS.
A WEST AUSTRALIAN SUGGESTION.
Old) SOLDIERS AND SAILORS FOR THE COLONIES.
United Press Association, Copyright
LONDON., Jan. 21
Mr. E. T. Scaminell, West Australian immigration lecturer, in tlie course of a lecture in tlie United Service Institution, advocated the commutation of naval and military pensions before the "age of. 50, enabling pensioners to provide capital to settle on land in tlie colonies. Mr. Scaminell outlined a scheme dealing with finance and safeguards for protecting the permanent interests of pensioners. He insisted that co-oper-ation with the colonial Governments was essential to success. The discussion elicited considerable approval.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2407, 23 January 1909, Page 5
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98PENSIONER SETTLERS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2407, 23 January 1909, Page 5
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