The Hawera Star. SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1928. REDISTRIBUTION OF POPULATION

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 28 July 1928, Page 4

The Hawera Star.

SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1928. REDISTRIBUTION OF POPULATION

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Tiliio first report of thie Industrial Transfer ernico Conumiiittce Should (have tihe effect of coinc emltraiting aittemitioa •both at Home omd in (the Dominions on one of the .most serious of post-.war problems. It is Itho opinion, of the Board, .ru body of experts appointed to deal with the transference of workers friom depressed inidusitrial areals to places where (the labour could be (utilised, that. for the .next few years the heavy industries will bo unable to offer additional employment. The economic loss is serious, for alfc the present time there are isaid. to. 'be over 300,000 nnetinployed in itlho mining, shipbuilding ana irom and steel trades. The problem of redistribution of population is admittedly one of exceptional difficulty. On ■the one hand 'there may be. some disiuclimaJtiom on the part of mem, and especially married men., skilled, in some particular branch of .industry, to face the unknown both as regards a new country and a new occupation'. On. the other hamid', of course, there is the strong objection of the overseas units orf the. Empire to receive any who may be ciloistsed ate unemployable in the Mother Country. Fortunately,, when he visited tiflc Dominion, Mr L. C. hi. S. .Auietry made at perfectly clear that there was no intention on the part of the authorities at. Home' tio solve .their own unemployment difficulties simply by adding to those, of the overseas dominions. A Canadian Committee that examined the. working- of the Three Thousand Families Scheme reported that “families of the right typo are available in the United Kingdom for settlement upon the land in Cain a da, and that with the co-operation of the Dominion and Provincial Governments the number of British families, so settled annu'ally, can be substantially increased.” The report showed that those already settled had done splendid pioneering work, and the committee; argued .that the Tight spirit, ratlior than previous experience of farming or the possession of .capital, was the first guarantee of suc'cietss. It i's, of course, to Canada and Australia that we must look fo;r land isettilemont schemes on a large scale. At .the present time Western Australia hats an ambitious plan, in hand, and a. .recent report from a Canadian correspondent showed that vast area's await settlement there. The Canadian Pacific Railway, it was stated, still owned 4,000,000 wares in Western. Canada., which coulld be obitaiiued on very reasonable terms, and Canada', fated with an influx of alien immigrants), is growing more and more anxious to encourage the sett J eoront of British people in. order thiait the traditions and institutions -of a British eom•mntni’ty may be .strengthened and maintained.. This great problem of the redistribution of popuilatiou, in some respects the most vital confronting .the Empire, can "bo solved only by joint effort. Up to. the present the problem hals been dealt with piecemeal; it now demands a comprehensive scheme on «.n Empire basis.