MIGRATION IN THE EMPIRE

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22466, 29 July 1938, Page 11

MIGRATION IN THE EMPIRE

♦- — ■ GERMAN REFUGEES FOR DOMINIONS PROPOSAL URGED RY BISHOP FALL IN REPRODUCTION RATE * IN EMPIRE (UVITF.D CKKSf 4HBOCIATIOS—COPTRIGHT.I (Received July 28, 2 p.m.) LONDON, July 27. The Bishop of Chichester (the Rt. Rev. G. K. A. Bell) in the debate in the House of Lords on the refugee problem said that an appreciable stream of intelligent Germans would be a positive gain and would help to check the alarming fall m the reproduction rate in Britain. Australia, and New Zealand. _ He quoted from various articles stating that New Zealand and Australia were not producing enough girls to keep up the future mothers. German refugees in Britain had a'.ready provided employment for twice their number of British workmen. The Government should encourage German settlement in Australia with a definite proportion of non-Jews.

AMERICAN PRESS COMMENT NEW ZEALAND URGED TO OPEN HER DOORS (Received July 28, 11.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 27. The "Evening Post," in a leading article commenting on New Zealand's decreasing Dirth-rate and European exiles, says:— "New Zealard needs people, and the refugees from European dictatorships need a home. Some of the best mind? and finest spirits from Germany, Austria, and Italy are exile. Why cannot New Zealand open her doors?" REFUGEE PROBLEM DEBATED EVIAN CONFERENCE DISCUSSED IN HOUSE OF LORDS (BRITISH OFFH'UI WIRF.LESS.I RUGBY, July 27. The problems of refugees and the Evian meeting were debated in the House of Lords to-day. The Earl of Plymouth, replying for the Government, said that the question had been approached with a wholehearted desire to assist in its solution, and the conference had warmly welcomed President Roosevelt's initiative, because, unless there was general co-operation the rtfugee problem would become still more difficult. The admission of emigrants into the Dominions was entirely a matter for their Governments, and as to the settlement of refugees in East Africa and Northern Rhodesia time must be allowed for consideration of what was a complicated problem. He ventured to think that the results of the Evian conference were very hopeful for the future.