NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 143, 20 June 1925, Page 16

NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE

SIR JAMES ALLEN" ON EMIGRA-

TION,

Sir James. Allen, High Commissioner for New Zealand, delivered an interesting lecture on" New Zealand—Past and Present," at Edinburgh, recently, under the auspices of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, reports the "Edinburgh Evening News." Sir James Allen said that primary produce, chiefly butter, cheese, wool, and meat, constituted: 93 per cent.. of the exports, and when they knew that New Zealand claimed to be the greatest exporting country in the world o£ dairy producer to the United Kingdom, that it supplied the Mother Country with more frozen mutton and lamb than any other country, and that since the inception of freezing there had been sent to Great Britain almost as much frozen mutton and lamb as from the rest of the world put together, they ;would realise the value of. that output of Empire to the people of Great Britain in peace and in war. Development still went on. To secure such supplies from their own kith and kin was of material value to them. It was the New Zealand policy, and one of supreme importance, that the chief market for their supplies should he in the Homeland. At present the Dominion was, per head of population, the largest purchaser of British goods iv the world, and as these are almost entirely manufactured articles, it seemed evident that no effort on thenpart should be lacking to encourage these purchases.

Sir James referred at length to the various emigration schemes whereby the Dominion hoped to absorb 7000 emigrants a year. New Zealand, he said, was prepared, to take farm workers and domestic servants without nomination. There was also a. New Zealand Government scheme for the absorption of ;i certain number of public schoolboys who would be placed under the rare of the Government and the executive of tlio Kiirmers' Uiiiu.ii, and who, later on, it was hoped, would become successful settlers on the land. These boys were selected through the Headmasters' Conference, and New Zealand was pratefiil to Mr. Stage who represented the i-oiiferencc in Scotland and made the original selection. Qver 200 had already gone, including boys from Edinburgh Academy. lUerohiston Castle School, George' Herat's School, »nd Fettcs College-, Edinburgh.