TRAINED MIGRANTS.
Needed At Home To Cultivate "Best Land In World." MR, LANSBURY'S STATEMENT. (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) (Received 12 noon.) . . LONDON, September 10. The Colonisation of Britain, was the 'text of an address by Mr. George Lansbury, first Commissioner of Works, delivered in the East End, in which he declared that men should be primarily trained for land careers at Home instead of in the Dominions.
He said that despite all manner of subsidies, agriculture, which is still Britain's greatest and most important industry, was going from bad to worse. •Britain trains men to send them thousands of miles away to the Dominions, While outside the training centres, miles upon miles of the best land in the world cried aloud for cultivation.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 215, 11 September 1929, Page 7
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