During 1930 the Comzet will settle 5,376 Jewish families on the lands, according to a decision taken today. Of this number 2,500 will be sent to Crimea, 2,176 to the Ukraine and 700 to Bira Bidjan.
Differences of opinion have now arisen as to whether it pays for the Comzet to continue the settlement of colonies in Birafield, Bira Bidjan where there are now 85 families. The opposition claims that the Birafield section lacks water and timber for house-building and is also far from the railroad, handicaps which other sections of Bira Bidjan do not suffer. It is likely that henceforth Birafield will get less settlers than other places in Bira Bidjan.
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