IMMIGRATION

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 7 June 1923, Page 5

IMMIGRATION

CANADIAN SCHEME

HALF A MILLION PROM AUSTRIA

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, June 5. The Daily Express publishes the remaskable announcement that Canada is Preparing to receive half a million i*»"iigi'ants from Austria for farming P^P^ses. Owing to the unsettled condi^ions in Austria thousands are workless tintl willing and anxious to go to Canada, which is unable to procure SUiiicient Britishers to counterbalance the heavy departures of Britishers to

*ne United States. the plan has not reached t!ie fina* stage, Canadian officials in jOn^on are not perturbed at the sugS«stion that it may involve a threat to tlie future °f the British race in Canada. c Immigr»tion Department informi&& the Daily Express that though

Canada is not prepared to cope with immigration on a national scale, she will certainly take as many suitable exenemy migrants as she can find employment for.