EMPIRE MIGRATION

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 295, 26 September 1935, Page 7

EMPIRE MIGRATION

ACTION URGED IN BRITAIN.

SOME GLOOMY PROPHECIES. United Press Association—Copyright) , LONDON, Sept. 20. An Imprial Conference to discuss migration was advocated by the Earl of Mansfield in Newcastle, when . a three days’ conference began with the adoption of resolutions urginig organised migration, adequately financed, as a stimulus to employment at home and overseas, and also calling on the Government, in consultation with the Dominions, to initiate a “great emigration movement.” Lord Mansfield said: “The last thing in our minds is to ask the Dominions to take a burden we are unable to bear. It is a mistake to imagine that the majority of settlers would consist of unemployed. There would be an equal, proportion of' those employed. The support of the Dominion and Imperial Governments is essential to ensure that there would be no change of policy.” * “There is no question that unless we populate New Zealand we will lose it,” said Mrs Jones Neilson, a New Zealander. “In view of Australia’s decline in population, the alternatives are im-i migration or ultimate invasion,” said the Lord Mayor of Newcastle, who explained that he had convened the conference because he believed millions could not forever be condemned to a stultifyiing, dole-support-ed existence. The Dominions wanted British co-operation in immigration. Group community settlement, lie said, was the objective.

GRANTS TO SETTLERS URGED. J f PROPOSAL IN BRITAIN. (Received This Day, II a.m.) LONDON, September 23. A deputation will urge the Government to provide in the Budget grants to settlers, also to establish Empire Boards, empowered by statute to supervise large-scale migration. This deputation is a. result of the conference at Newcastle, which declared that the basis of all settlement must lie that the Mother Country was responsible for the care of all migrants until they have become established.