STREAM OF MIGRANTS

Grey River Argus, 12 October 1936, Page 2

STREAM OF MIGRANTS

To New Zealand VISITING CAPITALISTS’ “FRONT” Cll RISTCHURCU. October 10. “Men are wanted who will not lose touch with what is best in the Old Country 'but who will enter heart and sould into the life of the Dominion,” said Mr. J. E. Emlyn Jones. n member of the. British delegation to the Congress of the Empire Chambers of Commerce, when he was advocating controlled immigration from Great Britain to the Dominions, last night til a complimentary smoke concert tendered bv the Canterbury Chamber Io '.be. Congress delegates. “We want von to gel rid ul. yotil fear complex.’ - ’ Mr. Emlyn-Jones continued. “You have nothing to tear in -taking the right type of men. You have pointed out that all that, has been done in New Zealand Ims been done well within the last hundred years... am going to sav that mm h more could have been done. Had your country been under the control of an energetic Board of Directors and the result had been reviewed now. they would all have been sacked. You have been going in for experiments jar more dangerous than that of properly controlled immigation. Nou tlint 1,111 Congress has passed a unanimous resolution. we are going t" try and see that a stream of immigration starts immediately, with good men put in a financial .position to make a lair start There is too much inclination toward insularity. and Iby .making personal contacts, we may eliminate it. V<’ have fair places of the earth,, and to hold them we must use iheni."