IMMIGRATION

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 49, 26 August 1938, Page 15

IMMIGRATION

THE DOMINIONS SOCIETY

SECRETARY PAYING A VISIT

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, August 25,

A visit to the Dominion in anticipation of the New Zealand Government deciding to encourage immigration from Britain is being made by the secretary of the British Dominions Emigration Society (Mr. R. Culver), who arrived by the Rangitane tonight. Mr. Culver has been secretary of the movement for 47 years, and paid his last visit to New Zealand in 1927.

The society had been active in emigration for 57 years, and in that time had assisted thousands of people tq settle in British Dominions, said MrJ Culver when interviewed. The main object of his visit to New Zealand was to establish additional representatives who would undertake the work of assisting in the settling of selected British immigrants when the Government was ready to receive them. It would help immigration schemes materially if the New Zealand Government would restore the nomination system which in the past had been responsible for bringing many fine types of people to the country.

The Australian Government had adopted a wider view on immigration recently, and it was hoped that New Zealand would follow suit.