TOO MANY IRISH.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 171, 21 July 1928, Page 9

TOO MANY IRISH.

Churches Protest And Ask ! Quota Migration. ECONOMIC ARGUMENT. I LONDON, July 20. 1 A deputation representing the Church of Scotland, the United Free Church of Scotland, and the Free Church of Scotland waited upon the Home Secretary, Sir William •Joynson-Hicks, in London and requested the imposition *o£ a quota system on the migration of Irish people to Scotland. The delegates quoted statistics to show that the Irish population of Scotland from 1881 to 1901 had increased by 32$ per cent, compared with an increase of native Scots of 18$ per cent. The increases in the succeeding 20 years were 31) per cent of Irish and 6 per cent of native Scots. Irish people, it was stated, now numbered 25 per cent of the population of Glasgow, and they received 70 per cent of the funds distributed for relief. It was asserted that the immigration of Irish folk had increased une in ployment among Scots, and also that many of these people were undesirables who would not be admitted to the United States. The Home Secretary said he was sympathetic in the matter, but the quota system would be entirely novel as applied to the British Isles. Negotiations had been proceeding with tbe Irish Free State authorities for the repatriation of paupered Irish from Scotland, and in his" opinion a more satisfactory solution of the question would be found on those lines.