FLIGHT FROM ENGLAND.
GRAVE NATIONAL DANGER. EMIGRATION ATTACKED. (Times and Sydney Sun Pervir-Css.) LONDON. .Turn- -J-I. In a letter tn tlir Press Mr. foiling. M.P.. attacks the HritUh emigration <o-i-iotirs. whose steadilv-incrcasinff work. he declares, presents ;i grave national danger. Mr. Collinfr* points out that thp cumber of onii<rr:uits lias infrcusfil from 71.188 in 1000 to 2HS-00n in V-lli. and nil wore of ftiu-h a c.]a.-s a? nn nation with a regard for its safety and prosperity could spare "Those MiiipranU," lie goes nn to ?sv, -arr jiound. liotli mpntally ami physically, and intlmle thrifty, moneyed farmfr-s and m:ir!<et gardeners, and even labourers are going with larpe .-urns in their pocketi'. Our rountrysije= iire aln-aily >o denudfid t>t population that they must bcrnme :■- desert. Passing tlirough the rural dis-triris you hardly m> -.< man working in. the iields- except at liarvist time." '
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Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 154, 30 June 1914, Page 5
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141FLIGHT FROM ENGLAND. Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 154, 30 June 1914, Page 5
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