INTER-IMPERIAL EMIGRATION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 10 April 1922, Page 5

INTER-IMPERIAL EMIGRATION

ENGLAND’S POPULATION PROB-

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(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

LONDON, April 9. Air Harold Cox, in an article in the Sunday Times, assorts that inter-Im-perial emigration eaiinut solve overpopulation in England, where the population is increasing by thousands dailv. lie contends that birth control is the only .solution. Unfortunately the State, by a- lavish system ot (ioles. is encouraging the least desirable classes to- multiply indefinitely. Tho article points out that the Dominions’ demand is for .agricultural workers, those being the very people j England is least- willing to part_ with. | Also. Australia and Canada .while increasing the local output of manufac-. tured goods, are more largely importing from the United States, instead** of restricting purchases to Britain. These considerations are put forward, not with any idea of discouraging any voluntary scheme of emigration, hut in the hope of destroying the illusion that there is much to he expected from a scheme of State-aided emigration now' loudly advocated. 'The colonies have grown into great States, and they have no right to beg us to tux ourselves in order to supply them with our best people. Doles to emigrants, which Colonel Ambery advocates, will not effectively’diminish doles to unemployed, which Colonel Amery rightly demonstrates only add burdens to the British taxpayer;-:.