NOT POPULAR
DOMINIONS AND MIGRATION
LONDON, 21st July. While Mr. Coleman, the Australian Government representative, was spending until 11 p.m. on the Australia House inquiry, the British Commonwealth Labour Conference elected him without his knowledge as chairman of discussion on the Empire economic political policy. After a speech by the Secretary for the Dominions (Mr. J. H. Thomas), urging Empire development, the conference discussed migration, and a British delegate compared the Australian migration policy to "suakos in Iceland." Others followed with acrimonious remarks about the lack of encouragement given to migration at present by the Dominions generally. The Dominions' representatives pointed out that the slowing down was duo to temporary 'economic and industrial causes. The King received Mr. Coleman and other members of tho inter-Parliamen-tary Union at Buckingham Palace.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19300809.2.62
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 35, 9 August 1930, Page 9
Word Count
129NOT POPULAR Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 35, 9 August 1930, Page 9
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in