EMPIRE MAN POWER.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 July 1936, Page 8

EMPIRE MAN POWER.

DEFENCE OF DOMINIONS

, REDISTRIBUTION ADVOCATED,

"The development of our work in the Dominion," says a statement issued by Uie Empire Migration Settlement Group, London, "reveals a wide-spread concern over their vulnerability, and a conviction that a redistribution of the population of the Empire to provide man-power, both for economic development and for defence is a requirement that cannot continue to be ignored without resultant and irreparable damage to its integrity.

"While the general concern of all ( the'Dominion is to secure increasedj markets for their primary products | they are obviously almost equally con- j corned over development secondary iu-j dustries. Provision of adequate de- ( fence would involve the development of j ancillary industries, and, as the Do-i

minions do not possess man-power adequate to their needs, common sense dictates provision of man-power and finance according to a well-thought-out plan. "By such development much of the objection of the Dominions' Governments to countenance migration and settlement would be overcome, because their ambitions to develop secondary industries would be realised, requirements of defence provided for, and employment made available for their own unemployment, besides absorbing suitable migrants from this country, thus bringing about expansion,of existing and establishment of new markets."