EMPIRE’S BEST CROP
BRITISH CHILDREN. MIGRATION OF INTELLECT ADVOCATED. «Y CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT . Received Jan. 24, 10.55 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 2a. Speaking at a luncheon given by the Overseas League and attended by official representatives of all the Dominions, General Sir William Birdwood, referring to the Dominions, said tliey. preferred to regard the sea as uniting, not dividing, the Empire. He Hoped no false economy would lead to a reduction of the Navy. He emphasised that the greatest crop the Dominions could produce was a crop of British children, and lie went on to urge that migration should be fostered among men of high education and intelligence and. wider perspective. If it were confined to the labourer, the emigrant lost touch with the Old Country, while men of education ana imagination were better able to spread the doctrine of what the Dominions were doing among the people of the Motherland. Therefore he advocated that the Dominions should appoint special officers to foster migration from__the public -schools. —Reuter.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 24 January 1925, Page 7
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