EMPIRE MIGRATION.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10712, 9 October 1928, Page 5

EMPIRE MIGRATION.

LORD LOVAT ARRIVES IN N.Z. PLEA FOR RELIEF OF MOTHERLAND. IMMIGRATION SHOULD NOT AFFECT LABOR MARKET. (Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Oct. 8. Lord Lovat, Minister in Charge of overseas arrived by the Niagara and will spend two- weeks in New Zealand. At a civic reception he said: ‘We do not come with any preconceived ideas, but hope to discuss with your Government the settlement of the white population within the Empire. W e still wish to send the right people to you, and you still wish to have them. Ido trust that we may be able to bring the well-thought-out ideas held equally in all parts of the Empire tp a workable scnexne. * Asked what effect this immigration would have on labor, Lord Lovat said there was no reason why it should not adjust tho labor market. -New jobs were found and new openings were created by the very fact of a number of men coming into a country.

CIVIC RECEPTION. DISTRIBUTION OF WHITE PEOPLE WITHIN EMPIRE. A MOST DIFFICULT PROBLEM. (Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Oct. 8. Lord Lovat was accorded a. civic reception, at which Sir Heaton Rhodes represented the Government. Sir Heaton mentioned that the average number of immigrants between 1920 and 1926 was 8,000. Tile influx had been temporarily checked, but they all hoped and believed*-that the balance of the importations of immigrants of the right type would speedily readjust itself. . ‘T. can say at once,” said Lord Lovat, “that 1 have the very greatest pleasure in coming to; New Zealand. We have had a most satisfactory conversation with the Federal Government of Canada, and we hope our stay in New Zealand will be equally productive of good results. We 'believe that tho essential and basic principles of the Land.. Setttemcnt Act (passed at Westminster manyi years ago; are equally true today. We still wish to send the right people, and you still wish to have them. The distribution of white population within the Empire is a most difficult problem and is becoming more serious day by day as we see other nations growing up around us. I do trust we may be ablei to bring a well thought idea which® held equally in all parts of the Empire to a workable scheme.” Lord Lovat was also entertained by the Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Society at luncheon. He leaves for Hamilton to-morrow night.