BOY SCOUTS AS EMIGRANTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 30 November 1922, Page 5

BOY SCOUTS AS EMIGRANTS

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

LONDON, Nov. '2B. Mr Pickford, lecturing at the Colonial Institute on tho Boy Scout movement, stated that the Dominions want men from Giwrwell Park, the principal British Scouts' camp, io assist to start training settlement schemes. He suggested that the movement should ii.elude Girl Guides.

Sir J. Cotk, presiding, said Boy Scouts of about 17 were the best human material for emigration. Mr MacNaghtou, vice-chairman of the Overseas •"Settlement Committee, said Mr Pickford had a great held m the Dominions for promoting i>oy Scouts' migration, and he suggested the establishment of a camp in the Dominions in which an immigrant scout'would be trained part time in camps and part time on farms. Whatever, scheme was adopted it was essential that provision be made for the welfare of the , boy emigrants after arrival from oversea. He hoped Girl Guides would launch a .similar migration policy. Girl immigrants were not less essential to the Dominions than boys.

Colonel Amery addressed the Manchester Chamber of Commerce on Empire emigration. He said emigration from this country to regions where natural resources existed brought about a quicker creation of wealth. Owing to the dislocation of the immigration machinery in the Dominions and the increase in passenger rates, it was ten times more difficult for a man to emigrate now than before the war. It was a fatal mistake, to think Empire emigration was an immediate cure for all unemployment. To treat it in that spirit would only result in disastrous failure.