EMPIRE MIGRATION

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 259, 2 August 1928, Page 9

EMPIRE MIGRATION

ADDITIONAL FACILITIES FOR SETTLEMENT LORD LOVATS MISSION CANADA TO BE VISITED FIRST Lord Lovat states that during his tour he hopes io make satisfactory arrangements for 21.000 miners and their dependants whom the Government desires to send overseas. (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, July 31. Lord Lovat, Parliamentary Under Secretary for Dominion Affairs am Chairman of the Oversea Settlemen Committee, who will sail on Saturda; for a tour of Canada, New Zealand, am Australia to discuss the provision oi additional facilities for ,settlemen overseas, said yesterday that he hope< to be able to make.satisfactory arrange ments for 21,000 miners and their de pendants whom the Government hoped to send overseas. He was going firs: to Canada, and a representative of his Department would return when he himself left the Dominion with full details of the arrangements made. They hoped to offer a very definite attraction to miners as settlers on the land. The Government had agreed to train and test them at training centres in the Eastern area and in Scotland and Wales. The Government had approved in principle of the proposal that advances up to £lOO should be made to settlers from this country, who after working on farms for a year or two to gain experience and had saved £lOO took up land of their own. The Government was very anxious to encourage family settlement, for it regarded that as one of the most important and satisfa.tory methods of settlement, and a; art from a direct settlement scheme it hoped to work out schemes for the provision of cottages on farms in Canada and Australia, in which families could be housed, while the men were working and gaining experience on land before they settled on their own holdings.. NEW TRAINING CAMPS. The new training camps and other features of the Government’s proposal for stimulating migration within the Empire were also referred to in the House of Commons by the Under-Sec-retary for the Colonies, Mr. OrmsbyGore. He indicated that Lord Lovat would take up actively with the Dominion authorities further schemes to enable migrants to make a career for themselves on land, whether in the shape of rural housing schemes or advances to those who have made good as laud workers, or of land settlement schemes on a larger scale, which were matters for negotiation with the Dominion authorities concerned. At the same time, in order to stimulate the normal flow of unassisted migrants as recommended, not only by the Industrial Transference Board but also by the Canadian Parliamentary Committee. which recently urged that an effort should be made to secure a reduction in the ordinary Atlantic Ocean rate to £lO, the Government proposed to enter into negotiations with the shipping companies. A YEAR’S EMIGRANTS (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, July 31. The President of the Board of Trade stated in the House of Commons that the total number of emgirants of British nationality to the British Empire overseas for the year ending June 30 was 108,695, and to United States 22,773. The number of persons migrating within the British Empire who were granted free or assisted passages was 47,892.