SOLDIER EMIGRANTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 295, 13 December 1922, Page 5

SOLDIER EMIGRANTS.

EARL HAIG'S CRITICISM. (Received 9.30 a.m.) LOXDOX, December 12. An official of the British Officers' Association, interviewed by the Australian Press Association with reference to E*rl Haig's emigration speech, said that though he could not make a statement officially on behalf of the association, he believed that Earl Haig's view was that there was nothing to withdraw in his speech. It was a mistake to infer from it that Earl Haig was opposed to the emigration of ex-service men: on the contrary, no man worked harder for this than Earl Haig, wfo was a thorough believer in placing ex-service men in the Dominions, provided they could find work, but when he found that emigration was not altogether successful he felt it his duty to point out the dangers to ex-service men in their own interest.

He did not believe that tbe speech would damage emigration, but it would certainly oroduce keener inquiries by exservice men prior to embarkation, but this was advantageous. Besides, Eart Haig believed that his comments in Manchester would tend to reduce the difficulties which some ex-service men experienced in some of the Dominions.— (A. and X.Z. Cable.)