EMPIRE MIGRATION

Evening Star, Issue 21934, 22 January 1935, Page 9

EMPIRE MIGRATION

QUESTION OF REVIVAL

LINKED WITH TfiAOE PROBLEM

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright

MELBOURNE, January 22. (Received January '22, at 10.30 a.m.) The Federal Attorney-General (Mr Menzies) hinted at the possibility of a. revival of migration being made the basis of negotiations between Australia and Britain when the questions oi meat and other exports arc discussed. Mr Menzies said: “ England is muling that she has too much population. \Vc must agree that Australia’s population is too small for the Commonwealth of the future. immigration and trade must not bo regarded as day-to-day matters.”

DOMINION'S UNDER-SECRETARY’S RETURN

CONFERENCE TO BE,HELD,

LONDON, January 21. (Received January 22, at 11 a.m.l

Mr Malcolm MacDonald is returning by the Rangitane to-morrow, shortly after which a conference will be held at the Dominions Office in connection with migration and dominions affairs. Chief interest centres in migration, following Mr Chamberlain’s recent speech, in which he said that, although emigration was unlikely to reach its previous level, no doubt a demand to settle men in new areas in the dominions would be revived. Ihe Government eagerly awaits observations by the dominions and colonies on the committee’s report. Mr Malcolm MacDonald will report to the Government the Australian and New Zealand attitude.