EMIGRATION DIFFICULTIES

Evening Star, Issue 18141, 4 December 1922, Page 5

EMIGRATION DIFFICULTIES

EARL HAIG’S CRITICISM. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, December 1. Earl Haig, speaking at Manchester, said ho had received a telegram from a dominion Governor asking for £I,OOO to help ex-soldiers who had emigrated. He was not going to advise emigration until ho know that things were right. —A. and N.Z. Cable. ' December 2, Earl Haig continued; “ I want to hear of letters coming to our people from our colonies saying ‘ There is plenty of work. You will be all right if you come to us.’ I have letters from places like Queensland and from some of the other dominions saying that many of our gallant men who have gone out there are starving. I am not going to be so unfriendly to our unemployed ex-soldiers here as to advise them to emigrate until I know things arc all right. I am not going to tell them to leave here until tho dominions set their own houses in order.” Sir Jospeph Cook, interviewed, said: “ This is the most serious and most damaging attack yet made on the migration arrangements, especially _in view of the speaker’s authority. , Sir Joseph Cook quoted returns showing that in the last quarter of this year over 4,250 ex-service men had gone or were going to Australia. All were requisitioned by various Governments which have undertaken to place them, and a large proportion were nominated by Australians who are responsible for their welfare.—A. and N.Z. Cable.