Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 332

•allotted 2,500 dunams of land for that purpose, where sixty families can be settled, and the Keren Hayesod promised to settle forty families there by means of a loan of £P. 18,000 apart from the share to be contributed by the families themselves. The cornerstone for this settlement unit was laid in the presence of representatives of Jewish national bodies and the Palestine authorities. In agreement with the South African Zionist Federation it was decided to lend £P. 7,500 to this settlement before October, 1935, for the following purposes : £P. £P. (a) Houses— Children's Home ...... -...... 800 Dwelling (6 rooms) ......... 360 Sanitary installation ......... 350 - 1,510 (b) Farm Buildings- Cowshed for 50 head ......... 600 Straw-bin ............... 200 Dairy ............... 100 Pond for cattle-bathing ......... 100 Shed for machinery ......... 120 Two poultry-coops and incubators ... 300 - 1,420 (c) Live-Stock—■ 25 cows ............... 1,000 (d) Working Implements ......... 1,170 (e) Irrigation— Irrigating an area of 300 dunams ... 2,400 7,500 9. Kibbutz Hashomer Hazair, Semakh. At the last Congress it was decided to build permanent houses for the Kibbutz Hashomer Hazair situated on the eastern bank of the Jordan, near Degania, where the conditions of security are not satisfactory. In view of that resolution, the Department decided to build dwellings this year in that settlement at a cost of £P. 2,400. Negotiations are also being conducted with regard to irrigation in that settlement involving a cost of £P. 1,100. 10. Other settlement units. Negotiations are being conducted between the Department and the Agricultural Office of the Histadruth Haovdim with regard to the granting of loans to settlements which served in the past and are still serving as training centres adjoining larger colonies, which obtained sufficient land from the Jewish National Fund for colonisation purposes, and in which hundreds of families are now concentrated. These kvutzoth will also be granted part loans for the introduction of special branches of farming. These include the following : 1. Kibbutz Hashomer Hazair, Ein Shamar, near Karkur. 2. Kibbutz Hakovesh, near Kfar Saba. 3. Givath Brenner, near Rehoboth. 4. Givath Hashloshah, near Petach Tikvah. 332