EMPIRE SETTLEMENT

Evening Star, Issue 18138, 30 November 1922, Page 12

EMPIRE SETTLEMENT

boy scouts as immigrants. Pros® Association— By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, November 23. Sir Alfred A. Bickford, lecturing before the Colonial Institute on the Bay Scout movement, stated ffcliadi the donmnione wanted man from Giwlwell Park—the principal Britisli Scouts’ oamp —to assist m starting training and settlement schemes. Ho suggested that the movement should include Girl Guides. Sir Joseph Cook, who presided, said that Boy Scouts about seventeen years of age were the best human material for emigration. Mr MaoNaghton, vice-chairman of the Overseas Settlement Committee, said that Sir A. Pickford had a great field in the dominions for promoting the migration of Boy Scouts. He suggested the establishment of camps in the dominions in which the immigrant Scouts were trained for .part of the time in -camps and -part of the time on farms. Whatever scheme was adopted-, it was essential that provision he made for the welfare of hoy emigrant® after their arrival overseas. .He hoped that the Girl Guides -would launch a similar migration policy. Girl immigrants were not less essential to the dominions than boys.—A. -and N.Z. Cable.