Title: Scheme for colonization by pensioners, drawn up by a sub-committee ... Ein two parts] To which is attached, Some considerations as to the benefit to be derived by the colony from settlements of pensioners, by Captain Daveney

Author: National Association for Promoting State directed Colonization, London

In: The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 68

Publication details: Victoria University of Wellington Library, Wellington

Part of: The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

I have the honour to forward for your consideration a skeleton scheme in connection with the subject of pensioners' emigration.

It will be within your recollection that I brought the subject under discussion in the House of Lords, in the form of a motion for papers, in July last, in reference to the Colony of New Zealand, where the homestead settlement exists, and where the pensioner settlements formed by Governor Sir G. Grey proved successful.

The enclosed scheme is not drawn with regard to any special colony, but its terms are applicable to all.

On page 2 is an extract from the Financial Statement of the Premier of the newly-elected House of Representatives in New Zealand, which shows a desire on the part of the Colonial Government to take action in the matter.

I venture to forward the enclosed scheme for your consideration, in consequence of your favourable reply on the 21st of July last, viz., that the subject should receive further attention at the hands of the Secretary of State.