EMPTY EMPIRE LANDS.

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

EMPTY EMPIRE LANDS.

INDUCEMENTS TO MIGRANTS. WIREI-ESS SETS FOR SETTLERS IESS LONELY BACKBCLOCKS. (By Cable.— ITpss Association.—Copyright.) (Received 1- noou.) LOXDUX, Hay 10. Addressing the Empire Migration Conference, v'lioh is being held at the Empire Exhibition, and which is preB ided over by Lord Burnham, -Mr. M. C. jlacNaughten (chairman of the Overseas "Settlement Committee) suggested that there was ;i chance for some wealthy philanthropist to present some hundreds of listening-in sets to families settling jn the baek'blocks to eliminate loneliness. Jlr. J- E- dynes (Deputy-Leader of tie House of Commons) expressed the opinion that this would be most helpful. The most successful form of migration was the groupp settlement of young men. ~ He advocated trotting 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 Relieved that under appropriate conditions 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. )