EMPIRE MIGRATION

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 55, 6 March 1934, Page 7

EMPIRE MIGRATION

ENGLISH APPEAL

A strong appeal for a new and progressive policy of Empire migration and settlement is made in a communication issued by Commissioner David -Lamb, of the Salvation Army (states an English paper). Whilo millions are unemployed at home, he points out, and vast accumu-I lations of capital are lying idle, the Empire is under-populated. The Crown Colonies and Mandated Territories, Canada, Australia, and Africa, could' be big absorbers of England's overflowing population, witli advantage to themselves and tho Empire as a whole. "Our Empire population is not only ill balanced, but also unevenly distributed," he declares. "In tho settlement of men and women in different parts of tho Empire we are not only creating badly-needed markets, but consolidating our position politically, as well as economically. What is even more important, it would stimulate naturally our trade, and create employment for those unfitted for overseas settlement. "What is to be done with this great | heritage'!" Commissioner Lamb asks. "Shall we see, at an early date, some bold attempt to secure a better distribution of the man-power of the British Empire and a comprehensive effort to develop its resources? Or is the Empire going to allow more aggressive races to overflow on to its vacant and idle lands and become markets for their own national industries? "Tho British" problem is largely a domestic and not an international one. A prolongation of the existing state within the confines of the Empire is r.ot only a reflection on the genius of the race, but is a continual reproach to our statesmen."- ' ~