IMMIGRATION POLICY
RECOMMENDATIONS TO GOVERNMENT
DOMINION ASSOCIATION’S CONFERENCE (P.A.) WELLINGTON, July 22. The conference convened by the Dominion Settlement and Population Association decided to-day to ask the Government to treat housing as a national emergency in the efficient way that it had treated the war and to clear the bottlenecks now in existence. A series of recommendations were approved to go forward to the Government. The conference considered that a permanent national immigration commission should be established to survey all avenues of absorbing new settlers. The commission would also formulate both short and long-range plans for settling the maximum number of immigrants in the shortest time, consistent with the interests of the Dominion and new settlors. The Government was urged to pronounce a long-term immigration policy on a scale proportionate to the Australian plan, which aims at a population of 20,000,000 in this generation. Steps will be taken to form committees of citizens in every town to welcome and help immigrants.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25243, 23 July 1947, Page 3
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