NEW CANADIANS

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 155, 27 March 1926, Page 9

NEW CANADIANS

MORE BRITISH THAN ALIEN STATEMENT TO CONTRARY DENIED Br Telegraph—Pres» AssociationCoPYBIGHT Ottawa, March 25. Taking exception to recent assertions that Canada is encouraging alien, not British immigration, the Department of Immigration and Colonisation lias issued a statement which says:— “Never was it true that overseas alien immigration equalled British immigration.” Canada has for years past secured more immigrants from Britain year by year, with one possible exception, than Australia, and usually more than Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa combined. Further than this, Australia gets comparatively few British immigrants, except those whose passages are paid wholly or in part. —Reuter. TRAINING SETTLERS London, March 25. Speaking at the Canada Club, Lord Bledisloe announced that he had accepted the Government’s invitation to become the chairman of the Imperial Settlers’ Training Committee on the understanding that the scheme applied to land settlement at Home as well as overseas. He advocated a round-table conference to delimit the spheres of British and Dominion agricultural producers. He expressed the opinion that the future of the Empire depended on the closest entente between Mr. Amery, Dominion Secretary, and his departments.—Reuter. CAPTAIN GUEST’S SCHEME EXPEDITIONARY LABOUR FORCE (Rec. March 26, 7 p.m.) London, March 25. In the House of Commons Captain F. E. Guest (L-), as a remedy for unemployment, suggested the formation of a voluntary expeditionary laboui force on the lines following in wartime to go to the Dominions for developmental work for a period of years, with a system of separation allowances if necessary. He suggested the raising of a loan of £100,000,000 for this purpose, and said he believed that the Dominions would subscribe to it. Mr. W. Lunn (Lab.) pointed out that the Dominions deprecated any proposal directly associating Empire settlement with unemployment. There were millions of acres awaiting development there.

The Dominions Secretary (Mr. Amery) doubted whether a military form of organisation would be the best. Migration ought never to be considered a means of ridding ourselves of people whom ,we did not want. He suggested that one of the most hopeful topics for discussion at the Imperial Conference would be how to cheapen unassisted passages and increase British consumption of Empire goods.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. GERMAN COLONISING NEW FORM SUGGESTED (Rec. March 26, 8.10 p.m.) Berlin, March 26.. A new form of German colonising isadvocated bj’ Herr Schacht, president of the Reichsbank, who said that they ought to be granted a right to establish settlements and form chartered companies with private capital, the settlements to be administered under some form of Home Rule. He did not indicate the locality of such settlements, but evidently referred to Germany’s former tropical possessions.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.