LORD LOVAT COMES TO DISCUSS EMPIRE MIGRATION SCHEMES

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6733, 9 October 1928, Page 7

LORD LOVAT COMES TO DISCUSS EMPIRE MIGRATION SCHEMES

Two Weeks in Dominion

CONTRADICTS ALLEGED PROPOSALS IN CANADA DISTRIBUTION OF HOME STOCK. Per ’ Press Association. AUCKLAND, Last Night. . Lord Lovat, Minister in Charge of Overseas. Settlement, has arrived by the Niagara. He will spend two weeks in New. Zealand. , - : uLord Lovat was. accorded'a civic reception at which Sir E. Heaton Rhodes represented the Government. i ' Sir' R. H.- Rhodes .mentioned that , the average number of immigrants between 1020 and 1026 was 8000. The influx had been temporarily checked blit; they all hoped and believed the balance of the importation of immigrants of the right type would speed.ily readjust itself. ■ "I- can • say' at once,” : said Lord Lovat,” that I have-the very greatest pleasure in coming to New Zealand. We have hid a most satisfactory conversation with the Federal Government of .Canada and wo hope our stay in'New:-Zealand-will be equally productive of good results. Wo believe the essential and basic principles, of the Land Settlement Act (passed at Westminster many years ago) are equally , true to-day. We still wish to send the right people and you ' still wish, to have them. The distribution of white, population within the Empire is a most difficult problem and is becoming more, serious, day 1 by,day, as wia see other, nations growing up around us. I do trust we may be able to bring, a well-thought out idea, which is held equally in all parts of the Empire, to a workable > scheme. ” Lord Lbyat was also entertained by the Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Society at luncheon. He leaves for Hamilton to-morrow night.

On being asked what effect this im-, migration would have on labour, Lord Lovat said there was no reason why it should not adjust itself to the labour market. New jobs were found and new openings were-created by the very fact of a number of men coming into the country. • In reply to a question with regard tpt j the Ottawa cablegram, stating that the Canadian-'lmmigration Department was considering a proposal by the British Government for the settlement of SOjOOO British families on Canadian farms, Lord Lovat said: “It is all wrong—inaccurate throughout. There is no authority for it. I cannot comment further as the matter is under discussion at the present time.' 1