BRITISH EMIGRANTS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1118, 4 May 1911, Page 5

BRITISH EMIGRANTS.

STATE AID ADVOCATED. By Tele'craph—Press Association-Copyrielit London, May 2. In tho House of Lords, the Duke of Marlborough called attention to a resolution passed at the 191)7 Imperial Conference in favour of encouraging emigration to the colonics rather than to foreign countries. He advocated child emigration on a comprehensive scale, and said that poor law and reformatory children would Iμ welcomed in the Dominions. Lord Lucas, Under-Secretaiy for the Colonies, replied that that was not the Government's policy, nor had the Dominions requested that emigration should be subsidised or organised by the State. If tho Dominions' Conference made suggeslions to increase the emigration, the Government would do everything to meet their wishps. Lord Selborne, ex-High Commissioner in South Africa, said his colonial experience had greatly impressed him with the lost opportunities of tho Imperial Government respecting the organisation of emigration. Though it would be useless to dump townsmen ou the land, there were many who had not been country men in Briton' because the rewards were insufficient, but who would be tempted by the greater rewards in the Dominions, and would likely, become excellent settlers.