ENGLAND TOO FULL.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 83, 10 April 1922, Page 5

ENGLAND TOO FULL.

IS EMIGRATION THE CURE? NOT A PANACEA. i ßy Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, April 9. l"he Overseas Settlement Bill to provide for financial co-operation with the Dominions in joint schemes of migration and land settlement wa,s read a first time in the House of Commons to-day. The "Morning Post." in a leader, warmly supporting an inter-Imperiai emigration scheme, says: — '"The working class of Britain, taught by a period of unusual distress, are be•rinning to perceive that there are more men in Britain than her industry can support even in times of prosperity. It is of first importance that every measure should be taken to ensure the success of the scheme from the beginning. Such a system of intcr-lmperial emigration, which eventually will include all the self-governing Dominions, will begin a new epoch in the history of the British Empire, and, we hope, a prosperity hitherto unknown."

Ou the other hand, Mr. Harold Cox. in an article in the "Sunday Times." asserts that inter-Tmpcrial emigration cannot solve the over-population of England, where the population is increasing at the rate of 1000 daily. He contends that birth control is the only solution. Unfortunately, he asserts, (he State, by

a lavish system of doles, is encouraging the least desirable classes to multiply indcfinitelv.

He points out that the Dominions demand agricultural workers, which arc Ihe very people that England is least willing t& part with. Also, Australia and Canada, while increasing the local output of manufactured goods, are buying more largely from the United States, instead of restricting purchases to Britain.

"These considerations." states Mr Cox. "are put forward, not with the idea of discouraging any voluntary scheme of emijrration. but in the hope of destroying the illusion that there is much to be expected from the scheme of Stateaided emigration, now loudly advocated. Tile colonies have grown into great States, strong enough to be self-depen-dent. They have no right to beg us to tax ourselves in order to supply them with our best people. Doles to emigrants, which Mr. Emery advocates, will not effectively diminish doles to unemployed, which Mr. Emery rightly denounces. They will only add to the burdens of the English taxpayers."— IA. and X.Z. Cable.) N.S.W. CAN'T HELP MUCH. (Received 10..".0 a.m.) SYDXEY, this day. The Surveyor-General reports that after reviewing the matter, it is apparent that the Crown lands of the State will afford only a limited opportunity of dealing with the settlement of immigrants on the land in any large numbers. (A. and X.Z. Cable.)