EMPIRE SETTLEMENT

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 163, 30 June 1930, Page 7

EMPIRE SETTLEMENT

CHURCH DISCUSSION IN LONDON DIFFICULTIES OF SITUATION (United Press Association—By CablcCopyrlght.] London, June 28. Anglican overseas archbishops and bishops, members of the Church of England Empire Settlbtnent Congress, discussed the best methods whereby 10,000 Canadian parishes could work with 15,000 home parishes in encouraging migration. The Bishop of London emphasised the difficulty of the situation, quoting tho experiences of two relatives in Australia, where, after considerable expenditure and working from morn till night for three years, a drought precluded success. There were other disappointing features in Australia, where tho Labour Party strongly opposed migration. A better atmosphere, prevailed in New Zealand, but many Britons were disheartened by tho reception there. Empire settlement should not bo regarded as a cure for unemployment, but from tho viewpoint of settling tho Empire with British blood. Br. G. C. Wiskard, of the Overseas Department, pointed out that £BOO,OOO had been .spent on migration during the current .year, but migrants must, be assets, turning from consumers to producers. Lord Jellieoe said that forty of forty-seven families migrated by the British Legion had succeeded. The Imperial Conference should organise largo development schemes for Britain’s surplus workers. Oh tho motion of tho Bishop of Toronto, seconded by tho I’rimate of New Zealand, it was resolved to affirm as an essential part of the work of tho Church in England and the Dominions, in co-operation with statutory and voluntary bodies, overseas settlement, offering tho services of their dioceses for that purpose.