Proposals for the Encouragement of Land Settlement and Immigration (London: British South Africa Company, [early 1910s]).

The Board of the British South Africa Company has recognised for many years past that the prosperity of Rhodesia, and of the Company, must depend upon the success and rapidity with which the many intricate problems concerned with land settlement and immigration can be solved, and has given them most serious consideration. At the present stage it is premature to introduce into Rhodesia immigrants without the experience, the moderate capital, and the physique required to render them successful cultivating landowners. Again it would be unwise to stimulate land settlement without regard to such factors as the adequacy of the supply of labour, or of livestock, in particular districts, and the markets available for an increased agricultural output. The land in Southern Rhodesia available for European settlement is limited by native reserves, private occupation, and by physical conditions such as altitude, fertility, water-supply and accessibility to markets.