MIGRATION OF BRITONS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 9 October 1928, Page 5

MIGRATION OF BRITONS.

POSSIBILITIES IN NEW ZEALAND LORD LO VAT’S INVESTIGATION. I-.' ivieerach —Brens Association.) AUCKLAND, Oct. 8. Lord Lovat, British Minister in charge of oversells settlement, arrived at Auckland to-day by the Niagara. He will spend two weeks in New Zealand. He was accorded a civic reception, at which Sir Heaton Rhodes represented the Government. Sir Heaton mentioned the average number of immigrants between 1920 and 1926 was 8000. The influx hqd been temporarily checked, but they all hoped and believed the balance of importations of immigrants of the right type would speedily readjust itself. “I can say at once,” said Lord Lovat, “that I have the very greatest pleasure in coming to New Zealand. We have had a most satisfactory conversation with the Federal Government of Canada, and we hone our stay in New Zealand will be equally productive of good results. “We believe tbe essential and basic principles of the Land Settlement Act passed at Westminster many . years ago are equally true to-day. We still wish to send the right people and you still wish to have them. “The distribution of the white population within the Empire is a most difficult problem, and is becoming more serious day by day as we see other nations growing up around us. I do trust we may he able to bring the well-thought idea which is held equally in all parts of the Empire to a workable scheme.” Asked what effect this immigration would have on labour. Lord Lovat said there was no reason why it should not adjust* the labour market as new jobs were found. New openings were created by the very fact of a number of men coming into a country.

In regard to the Ottawa cablegram stating the Canadian Immigration Department was considering a. proposal by the British Government for the settlement of 20,003 British families on Canadian farms, Lord Lovat said it was all wrong and inaccurate throughout. There was -no authority for it. He could not comment upon it, as the matter was under discussion at the present time. Lord Lovat was also entertained by the Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Society at luncheon: He leaves lor Hamilton to-morrow night.