BIG MOVEMENT

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 5 December 1928, Page 5

BIG MOVEMENT

MIGRATION FROM BRITAIN.

SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM.

CANADIAN EXPERT’S VIEWS

i-<l Crese Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) Received 11.10 a.m. to-day.

LONDON, Dec. 4. “All previous migration schemes have been tripping and trifling ; we want a big national movement from tho Motherland to the Dominions, plotted, planed, and perfected by the Government with the same scale of vision as was shown in the closing years of the war,” declared Mr. Bruce Walker, Canadian director of migration in Europe, when speaking at the Empire Society dinner. “A mighty uational movement is wanted. England has responded with a series of spasmodic efforts. An Empire movement from Britain should average three hundred thousand yearly, of which Canada at present could absorb one-third, and within a few years onehalf. It should be possible within six months to establish enough training camps to produce twenty thousand partially trained migrants annually, it would cost a lot of money, hut it would be returned by relieving conditions in Britain.”