EMPTY EMPIRE LANDS.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 116, 17 May 1924, Page 7

EMPTY EMPIRE LANDS.

_. * INDUCEMENTS TO MIGRANTS. WIRELESS SETS FOE SETTLERS IBSS LONELY BACKELOCKS. {By Cable.—l'ress Association.—Copyright.) (Received 1_ nuou.) LONDON, May 16. Addressing the Empire Migration Conference, '• lich is being held at the Vmnire Kxhiltition, and which is pre6 ided over by Lord Hurnham, Mr. VI. C. jlacNaugliteu (chairman of the Overseas Settlement Committee) suggested that there was a chance for some wealthy philanthropist to present some hundreds of listening-in sets to families settling jn the bad-blocks to eliminate loneliness. Mr. J. B. Clynes (Deputy-Leader of the House of Commons) expressed the opinion that this would be most helpful. Jhe most successful form of migration was the groupp settlement of young men. He advocated getting the assistance and counsel of big trade organisations in Britain. There should be no element of compulsion or appealing to poverty. The Government hoped to prove itself nowise inferior to its predecessor in the encouragement given to migration. He "believed that under appropriate cord' tions and fair terms the transference of the surplus population of Britain to other lands would be an advantage to the working classes remaining behind, as well as of enormous personal advantage to the migrants.— ( A. and N.Z. Cable.)