EX-SERVICE MEN FOR THE EMPIRE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 38, 8 November 1917, Page 6

EX-SERVICE MEN FOR THE EMPIRE

BRITISH COMMITTEE'S REPORT ON EMIGRATION. Lord Tennysou'6 Committee on the settlement of ex-service men within the Empire has issued its report, which desk also with the emigration of women. The committee lias throughout kept in closo touch with Hie Reconstruction Committee. Of considerable importance is the proviso that recommendations of the committee are subject to the question of transport, and there are at present no means of telling how much shipping will be available after the war, as returning troops will have the first, claim. The principal recommendation of the committee may be summarised as follows:— Preference should be given to married' men, and the emigration of the women relatives and fiancees of ex-service men' should be encouraged in co-operation with (he societies which havo specialised in the emigration of women. After diseasing the question of the amount of capital needed by intending emigrants, the report emphasises the need of previous agricultural experience, and intending settlers aro advised on arrival to take up farming employment for a, time, rather than to seek to obtain holdings of their own at once. The committee do not think it expedient, to establish Government farms in the United Kingdom for training ex-ser-vice men who desire, to settle overseas. It is imperative that a central emigration authority, containing representatives of both the ITome and oversea Governments and a limited number of unofficial members should he set up without dclav.