27 OCTOBER 1928, Page 3

Mr. Egan, the Canadian Deputy Minister of Immigra- tion, is

surely right in attaching preeminent importance to the reduction of the fare for unassisted passages. He mentions £10 as a possible figure. That would mean reducing the present fare by nearly half. It is obvious that the very type of settler needed by Canada is the man who goes spontaneously and independently and asks nobody for help. The £10 _fare would take thousands more across the Atlantic every year.