“WHITE ENGLAND” POLICY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 295, 26 September 1935, Page 10

“WHITE ENGLAND” POLICY.

SECRET BEHIND BRITAIN’S POLICY.

‘THERE IS NO WORLD MARKET.”

“There is a White England policy as well as a White Australia policy. The English, having grown one-seventh of their agricultural produce, have the idea of bringing their production up to one-third. The rest of the world has locked us out of factories and locked us into fields. You cannot expect people to walk up and down the fields afid do nothing to them. That a proportion of people have been turned out of the factories into the fields is one of the factors this century will have to reckon with.”—Mr Walter Elliot, British Minister for Agriculture.

Deferring to Britain as a world market, Mr Elliot said: “Actually, there is no such thing as a world market. There is Great Britain. There is a world market for certain things, but there is not very much except Great Britain for agricultural produce. Mr Bruce (the Australian High Commissioner) himself mentioned that. Nearly 40 per cent of the exported wheat of the world comes here. Eggs come to Britain and stop here; there is no entrepot trade. Forty-eight per cent, of the cheese and 54 per cent, of the condensed milk come here. Then we pass to really large figures; 68 per cent of the butter'-comes here for consumption, 71 per cent of the beef and veal, 94 per cent of the mutton and lamb, 96 per cent of the bacon. So, you see, when I say Great Britain is the world market it is no exaggeration. These figures are an average for 1927-31.”

Because it has a definite hearing on the general problem, Mr Elliot mentioned the recent unique migration position (states a Home paper). Mr Bruce had said: “We can take your men.” That, Mr Elliot said, might he true; but if one looked into the history of the past two or three years one found that “it is to the great open spaces of England that the populations of the Empire are flocking; it is to Kent atid Sussex that the populations of Melbourne and Toronto are streaming.” The balance of migration was in, and not out. The nett movement of migrants of British nationality in 1931 showed a surplus of 26,000; in 1932 of 33,000; and in 1933, of 23,800. “I do not know of any other dominion in the Empire which is absorbing immigrants at anything like that rate,” Mr Elliot declared.

GUERNSEY HEIFER'S RECORD.

SIXTEEN TIMES OWN WEIGHT. First-calf Guernsey heifers in England are apparently beginning their yields where their ancestors left off. A new record for a Guernsey heifer in that country has been set up by the Hon. A. E. Guinness’s Bella s Cora 4th of Les .lotteries, an Islandbrecll animal which, commencing at 2 years 111 days old, produced in 351 days (carrying her calf due last month) 15,0111 b of milk, and 710.021 b of but-ter-fat.

This represents 6 tons 14cwt. and 31b of milk, Jhe live weight of the

animal being 9601 b, so that the milk she has yielded with her first calf is nearly sixteen times her own weight. This heifer coming down with her second calf is fit and well, and was giving over' three gallons daily when she was dried off to rest her before calving, having been milked twice daily for a period equal to about three-quarters of her full lactation period. The Hon. A. E. Guinness acquired the herd of the late Sir Lonis Baron at Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking, and Biella’s Caro 4th of Les Jetteries • was among other animals included in the purchase.