MIGRATION BY FAMILIES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1076, 24 July 1924, Page 5

MIGRATION BY FAMILIES.

SUGGESTION FROM ENGLAND. In the course of the Financial Statement last night the Prime Minister referred to immigration and said: “The following extract from the remarks of the Rt. Hon. L. S. Amery, formerly chairman of the Overseas Settlement Committee, at the Imperial Economic Conference of last year, is of special interest: ‘Migration by Families—More particularly 1 should like to lay stress on what I referred to just now in connection with the ex-service - free passages—the desirability of making it possible for the man who has a family to go across, because, from the point of view of future citizenship, that is the most valuable element we can send to you. It is true from the point of view of the individual employer a single man is preferred, but from the point of view of development the man who goes with a family of growing children —the citizens, the creators of the wealth of the future—is the most welcome settler. I should like to draw attention to this fact, that New Zealand, in this respect, has agreed with us on assisted-passage schemes very substantially ahead of any other Dominion in the very liberal assistance they give to the man with a family—that is to say, that children up to a certain age go entirely free and the older sons and daughters at a very reduced rate. I think to-day a man with quite a large family can get to New Zealand on practically no more than it takes a man and his wife alone to go to Australia. I should like to press very strongly the importance of that.’ ”