MORE EMIGRATION

Grey River Argus, 17 September 1932, Page 6

MORE EMIGRATION

BRITISH AGITATION Dominions Told Their Business (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn). LONDON, September 16. The Morning Post is continuing its crusade in favour of stimulation of migration from! Britain. It says that the fullest advantage of the Ottawa Conference decisions ■would only be realisable by an expansion of the Dominions’ population. It says:—“No statesman or economist will contest the assertion that neither Australia nor Canada would be over populated at say thirty millions each. Yet according to lh e progress during the past century, it would take Canada over a. century and Australia over two centuries to reach those figures. New Zealand will take three or four centuries to obtain even ten millions of a. population. There is naturally a limit to the economic increase of population in proportion to the area and the natural resources. We have sometimes overstepped that limit but the Dominions remain far behind it. All of their equipment in railways, telegraphs, etc., could more intrusively he used by double or treble the population w>fh comparatively little extra outlay. Their factories could, therefore, raise their output if they were producing for larger home markets. It is therefore, in the common interest that the Dominions and the Mother Country should promote a flow of population from where it is excessive to where it is deficient. ’ ’