MIGRATION INTER ALIA

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 55, 14 September 1928, Page 9

MIGRATION INTER ALIA

PARLIAMENTARY PARTY Mil. NOSWOKTHY SPEAKS Australian Press Association. (Received 14th September, noon.) VANCOUVER, 13 th September. At a joint conference of tho Board of Trade and the Empire Parliamentarians on Thursday, Mr. W. Nosworthy (New Zealand) urged that "We should get down to fundamentals and consider not only immigration within tho Empire but how all the interests of the Empire might be consolidated." The Premier of British Columbia, Mr. S. F. Tolmie, declared that the British Columbian Government was prepared at any time to enter into negotiations in the most sympathetic manner possible for tho placing of British-born settlers on British Columbia lands. "We aro anxious," he said, "to keep this a British country and nothing else." Mr. Tolmie declared that the Government was prepared to supply land, administration, supervision, schools, roads, and the province's investment in railroads. He advocated the block system of settlement. "Wo want British settlers," he declared, "because they are our own kith and kin and because the Old Land has produced the best agriculturalists in the world." Mr. David Kirkwood, Scottish Labour M.P., caused amusement when he declared that what Canada required was a Socialist Republic.