MIGRATION TO CANADA
MUST BE KEPT BRITISH. FAMILY RE-UNIONS LEAGUE SEEKS ASSISTANCE. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Deceived 10.55 a.m. to- day. OTTAWA, May 2. Mr. Albert Chamberlain, president of the British Welcome ana Welfare League at Toronto, speaking before the Immigration Committee, urged that financial assistance should be given to Lritisii women and children to enable them to join their husbands in Canada. He said that a thousand men were living in Canada whose iamilies were in Britain. Britain was prepared to assist the league in bringing about lamily reunions if Canada would pay 50 per tent. The League could bring titty thousand women and children to Canada, which must not become a melt-ing-pot.,- it must he kept British.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 3 May 1928, Page 5
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123MIGRATION TO CANADA Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 3 May 1928, Page 5
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