21 APRIL 1923, Page 12

ADVICE TO WOULD-BE SETTLERS IN FLORIDA.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The letter from Englishmen in Florida printed in your issue of October 7th, 1922, is so much to the point that I cannot refrain from a word of appreciation of the advice tendered to would-be emigrants from the Old Country. Its application, however, should not be confined to Florida or even the United States as a whole, but to every country overseas. The only safe rule to observe before taking up land is to live in the locality for a year, preferably as a wage- earner. It is maddening to see good English money and trustful youth squandered to enrich real estate sharks.—

Dawson, Yukon, Canada.