MIGRATION

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2134, 13 February 1929, Page 5

MIGRATION

AN EMPIRE POLICY

DEBATE- IN THE ( OYLYTuXS

tAus*. and N.Z. Cable).

London, Feb. 11

In the House of Commons the-Under-Secretary for Labour, Air H. B. Bofitciton, submitting a supplementary estimate for £366,000 for industrial training and transference,: said that, whereas last year 2024 persons went from training centres to Canada and Australia, there were; mow 6000 in graining for Canada alone. It cost the man nothing, till lie reached Canada.. They were prepared, to train as many as they anticipated Australia would take. BURDEN NOT SHIFTED Mr AV. Lunn j(Labv): Tens oiff; thousands are anxious to emigrate, but the conditions in the Dominons are not encouraging. Air Amery, replying, said that ttje 'Government in no way desired to .shift the burden of unemployment to, the shoulders of the Dominons. A migration policy must b» based on the co-operation of Britain and the Dominions, but tlijpi Governmeait Relieved that migration persistently carried out with this co-operation would help the growth of the Dominions and the trade and welfare of tfcje whole Empire, The test: of the migrant should not bo unemployment, but fitness. If he were likely to succeed and wished to migrate, ho should be .encouraged. If he were unfit and unwilling should be discouraged