EMPIRE SETTLEMENT.
MR, J. H. THOMAS’S REVELATION LONDON, Nov. 18. Mr.- J. H. Thomas, M.P., dealt with the question of unemployment and emigration in addressing a meeting of the local committee of the Alliance of Employers atid Employed at Derby.’ He said there was a tendency for people not fully to realise liow' difficult and precarious was the situation of British industry to-day. We had been left with a debt of eight thousand 'millions as a result of the w’ar. Not one of the Allied .or enemy countries was in a similar position. They had heard a great deal about emigration and about the Colonies being ready to welcome emigrants with open arms. They could take it 'from him that this was not true. One of the last things he did before leaving office was to. enter into an agreement with Australia for what he considered w r as the best emigration scheme ever introduced. At the present time there u'ere on the books over 60,000 people anxious and ready to emigrate when the Dominions w r ere prepared to receive them, but they could not he allow-ed to go until some scheme had been prepared for their absorption upon arrival.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 31 December 1924, Page 5
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201EMPIRE SETTLEMENT. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 31 December 1924, Page 5
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