An Emigration Scandal It is interesting to see that a
Royal Commission sitting in MellsOurne has found the Victorian Government of ten years ago guilty of breaking its agreement with hundreds of British ex-Service men. These men were induced to emigrate to Victoria on the understanding that they would be helped in every way , to settle as , fruit-farmers in the 31ildura district, where a large irrigation scheme was in progress. The British Govern- ment supported the movethent, and the men invested such capital as they had in their farms. The settlers, however, soon found that they had been gravely misled ; the land was unsuitable, water was scarce, the State authorities were indifferent, and most of the settlers, having spent their all, were forced to migrate to Mel- bourne and swell the ranks of the unemployed. It is too late now for many of them to retrieve the situation, and one reason why emigration hangs fire stands officially revealed.
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