BRITISH EMIGRATION.

Grey River Argus, 13 February 1929, Page 6

BRITISH EMIGRATION.

SPEEDING UP VOTE. Tariff Sidelight. LONDON, February 11. Mr H. B. Betterton (Conservative) in the House of Commons, submitted a supplementary estimate of £366,000 for industrial training and transference. He said that whereas last year, only 2024 persons went from the training centres to Canada and Australia, there were now 6000 training for Canada. It cost a man nothing till he reached Canada. They were prepared to train as many as it was anticipated Australia would take. Rt. Hon. E. Hilton Young (Conserva'ive, Norwich) said it was a mistake to think that the policy of emigration amounted to a confession of failure. Emigration was most prevalent in the most vigorous periods of Britain’s life. It was tragic to think that the Dominions were being peopled by foreigners instead of Britishers. Mr Wm. Lunn (Labour. Yorks, Rothwell) said that tens of thousands were anxious and walling to emigrate, but the conditions in the Dominions were not encouraging. The Colonial Secretary, Rt. Hon. L.j Amery, said cne Government in nowise desired to shift the burden of unemployment to the shoulders of the Dominions. The migration policy must be based on cooperation between Britain and the Dominions, but the Government believed that migration, if persistently carried out, with this co-operation, would help the growth of the Dominion’s trade and the welfare of the whole Empire. The test o f the migrant should not be his unemployment but his fitness. If he is likely to succeed and wishes to migrate., he should be encouraged, but if unfit and unwilling, he should be discouraged. AUSTRALIA’S BIG PREFERENCE. Lord Apsley (Conservative, Southampton) inquired the value of the l Imperial preference given to the Dominions for the la'est available year; al-o the amount given by the Dominions to Britain. Captain D. Hoskin g (Conservative, Ghorley, Lancashire) said that up to March 31 last year British preference approximately was £6.289,000. Thc latest complete figures of the Dominion’s preference to Britain was in 1925, when Canada gave £2.470,000, Australia £7,880,000, New Zealand £2 860,000, South Africa £G-*3 000. Later figures for the year ended .Pune, 1927, were: Australia £8,480,000 j Africa £421,000-