MIGRATION PLAN.
CONSIDERATION BY GOVERNMENT. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, June 30. “To bring people into New Zealand without any proper plan for their occupation would be stupid and repeating insanities of the past,” said Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, in commenting on the cabled summary of the report of the Overseas Settlement Board of the British Government. “We are just as anxi * t as the Empire Settlement League can be to bring people to the Dominion,” added Mr Savage. “We cannot hold empty territory ‘'or ever. The only way to hold it would be by population, and by bringing people here to fill the places that have been made for them. To tackle the problem properly would need a fairly substantial amount of money. The Government has a responsibility for preparing the way for immigrants, and for that reason has been considering the possibility of getting substantial tracts of good land, not in the baekblocks or away from the railways, and using machinery to bring it into cultivation so that there would be immediate results. This land would be available for people with very little capital.”
The secondary industries would have to be developed, Mr Savage added, and this was a bigger thing than the tariff question. If they could not get immigrants from the Old Country they would take them from Denmark or other suitable countries.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 181, 1 July 1938, Page 8
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