HAIG OBJECTS

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 134, 4 December 1922, Page 7

HAIG OBJECTS

AGAINST EMIGRATION

"UNTIL THINGS ARE RIGHT"

(CMTID PRBSS ASSOCIATION—COFTRTOKT.)

(AVBIRALUK • NEW ZBALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 2nd December.

Earl Haig, speaking at Manchester, said he Had received a telegram from a Dominion Governor asking for £1000 to help ex-soldiers who had emigrated. He was not going to advise emigration imtil he knew that things were light. Earl Haig continued:—"l want to hear of letters, coming to our people from oar colonies saying: 'There is plenty of work. You will be all right if you come to us.' ■! have letters from places like Queensland and from some other Dominions saying many •of our gallant men wEb have gone out there are starving. I am not going to be so unfriendly fo our unemployed ex-sol-diers here as to advise them to emigrate until I know things are all right. I am not going to teil them to leave here until the Dominions set their own houses in order,"

Sir Joseph Cook, High. Commissioner for Australia, interviewed, said this was the most serious and most damaging attack yet made on migration arrangements, especially in. view of the speaker's authority. Sir Joseph Cook quoted returns showing that in the last quarter of this year over 4250 ex-service- men have gone or are going to Australia, all requisitioned by the •various Governments, who undertake to place them, and a large proportion nominated by Australians who are responsible for their welfare.