EMPIRE MIGRANTS

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 177, 21 April 1924, Page 7

EMPIRE MIGRANTS

1 NET NATURAL INCREASE NOT YET COUNTER-BALANCED MOVEMENT FROM BRITAIN TO DOMINIONS’ Br Telegraph—Pf.zss Association. Copyright. London, April 18. The report of the Overseas Settlement Committee shows that the net migration in 1923 was 198,000, compared with 1,906,000 in 1922. During 1923, 75,866 people went to Canada and Newfoundland, 31,583 to Australia, 7188 to New Zealand, and 86-, 034 to the United States. This migration ■ had not yet counter-balanced the net natural increase, so there was no prospect of migration reducing the population of Britain in a manner injurious to posterity. There were 44,269 migrants under the Empire Settlement Act since it began operating, of which 31,235 had gone to Australia, 6839 to Now Zealand, and 6195 to Canada. Of juveniles of ’noth sexes, 550,000 had come upon the British labour market yearly, which prompted the committee to recommend juvenile migration under proper safeguards. It stated that public school boys of n, suitable typo who were prepared to engage in farm work overseas should be granted assisted passages to tho Dominions, where they could be placed in agricultural colleges or training farms. Family migration was tho most natural and the happiest form of settlement, and the majority of women settlers would proceed overseas by this method. Group settlement also deserved support. The Empire Exhibition might well exercise a great influence on the progress of overseas settlement. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.