OVERSEAS SETTLEMENT.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17104, 28 March 1921, Page 7

OVERSEAS SETTLEMENT.

arrangements poe new

ZEALAND.

(FBOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

LONDON, February 10. High Commissioners and :.represe'nta* tives ol the various parts of the Empire havo just concluded a conference over which Colonel Amery, Under-Secretary for the Colonies, presided, and the wiiole matter of overseas * settlement was exhaustively discussed. The question will come up at the meeting of the Imperial Cabinet in J uuo, but in the iiieantime the British Government has yiven a definite promise to snaro thi financial buruen or emigration lrom this country with the various Dominions concerned. . A new arrangement which has been jnaclo with* the Overseas Settlement Committee will do away with the troubio which has arisen tnrough settlers for Now Zealand taking pas : sages to Australia with the Hope of getting to tlio Dominion more speedily and ovbntually being stranded m the Commonwealth without money. All the ex-6erviee" men and their families t be sent out by the Settlement Committee, after being approved by the High. Commisioner, have now to airange their shipping derails through tho Now Zealand Immigration Department. In this way the Department will be able tu keep a definite hold over them and ensure that no one books except by a direct liner to the Dominion.

There are very large numbers of applicants for passages for the Dominion, but the High Commissioner is not allowing the waiting list to become too full, believing in a steady and gradual process of emigration Difficulties with regard to accommodation are being overcome, and in this respect the Overseas Settlement Committee has chartered, the Waimana. This vessel will sail on the 18th instant and the whole of tho accommodation will be taken up by exBritish soldiers and their dependants* &ir James Allen has also gone into the question of the financial position ot intending settlers, and he is hopeful of coming to some arrangement with the British authorities, so as to ensure that all the settlers going out to New Zealand land with a certain smount of money in their possession.