London, Mar. 6, The success of the land settlement of unemployed was referred to by Lord Elgin, Chairman of the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, at the annual meeting of the Trust yesterday.
For 1936 to 1940, he said, an allocation of £150,000 was made for land settlement, and until the end of last year £68,000 had been paid in grants.
The whole of the amount, he continued, had been credited to the Land Settlement Association—a body created in 1934 to test the practicability of creating employment through tilling the soil. The Association now controlled 25 estates, comprising 11,-
000 acres.
Lord Elgin announced that, as a special contribution, the Trust had allocated a sum, up to a maximum of £10,000, to pay for the inquiry into the connection between economic and social factors of physical welfare, which had been undertaken by Sir John Orr, well known for his work on nutrition problems—Wireless through Reuter.
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