HISTORY
Group Settlement
GROUP 7 - WESTERN AUSTRALIA’S GROUP SETTLEMENT SCHEME
Cape Landing’s picturesque vineyard in Forest Grove, Margaret River, sits on land that originally formed part of Group 7 of Western Australia’s Group Settlement Scheme.
The Group Settlement Scheme, a joint venture between the United Kingdom and West Australian Governments, had the dual purpose of helping the United Kingdom Government ease post first World War I unemployment, and, at the same time, provided the State Government of Western Australia with the migrant labour required to clear native forest and open up the south west of Western Australia for agriculture.