Bernard Flexner, board chairman of the Palestine Economic Corporation, stated today that the cost of settling a family in the Kfar Warburg colony was 1902 ($4,400 at the normal rate of exchange, $3,200 at the present rate) and in the Beer Tuvia colony 1847 ($4,100, normal, $3,000 present. He made public the figures in connection with the recent raising of the question of comparative settlement costs between Palestine and the Dominican Republic put at $1,000 per family, adding: “No intelligent comparison in the cost of settlement in Palestine as compared with any other country can possibly be made without a detailed breakdown of the figures, nor can any comparison be made unless the different circumstances prevailing in every country are fully and adequately described.”
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