IMPERIAL MIGRATION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 256, 26 September 1935, Page 7

IMPERIAL MIGRATION.

ADVOCACY OF CONFERENCE. FEELING AT HOME. LONDON, Sept. 25. An Imperial conference to discuss migration was advocated by Lord Mansfield at Newcastle, when a threedays’ conference, began with the adoption of resolutions urging organised migration, adequately financed, as a stimulant to employment at Home and overseas, also calling on the Government, in consultation with the Dominions, to initiate “a great emigration movement.”

Lord Mansfield said: The last thing in our minds is to ask the Dominions to take a burden we arc unable to bear. It is a mistake to imagine that the majority of settlers would consist of unemployed. There would be an equal proportion of those employed. Dominion and Imperial Governments’ support was essential, to ensure that there would be no change of policy. ‘‘there is no question that, unless we populate New Zealand, we will lose it,” said Mrs Jones , Neilson, a New Zealander. In view of Australia’s- decline in population the alternative is immigration or ultimate invasion, said the Lord Mayor of Newcastle, who explained that he had convened the conference because ho believed that milions of people could not forever be condemned to a stultifying existence supported by the dole. The Dominions were desirous of British co-cperation in immigration. He added that group community settlement was the objective.

GRANTS TO SETTLERS. REQUEST TO BE MADE. Received September 20, 11.10 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 25. A deputation will urge the Government to provide in the Buaget grants settlers, and also establish Empire boards empowered bv statute to supervise large-scale migration as a result of the Newcastle conference, which dc•lared that the basis of all settlement must be that the Mother Country is responsible for tbe care of all migrants until they *re established.