FUTURE OF DOMINIONS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22247, 23 October 1935, Page 10

FUTURE OF DOMINIONS

NEED FOR DEVELOPMENT § BRITAIN AND MIGRATION ~ A summary of the events and til, j topics touched upon by the vane® | speakers at the-Royal Empire Summur | School, 1934. held at Oxford, formed ; the subject of an address given by Mr. I D. Jl. Rae, principal of the Auckland | Training College, at a Victoria Leagoii ' gathering yesterday morning. | "Orer 250 Fellows from all parts of ! the Empire attended the school and ; lectures were given by noted author** i ties on subjects all of which had mhes ! Empire bearing." said Mr. Rae. Anwajj ' the speakers were Sir Alfred MaeKiiK der, chairman of the Imperial Shipping Committee, Mr. Stanler Bruce, this Hon. Walter Elliot, Minister of Agriculture, and other prominent public men. In his survey of the lectures he subtended at the school, Mr. Rae esplained those which were of particular interest to Xew Zealand. Mr. Elliothad remarked upon the engineering of expansion by the nations of the world. The - day of renunciation was at band again and there was a challenge to thß Dominions, for it was becoming aptparent that the only way to hold lands was to people them. Immigration *as to be given serious thought. There was a need for constructive statesmanship which would aim at the establishing «f prosperous farms and the development of some of the vast waste lands of Neir Zealand and other Dominions. The closing of factories in England would drive men into the fields, but it was far better, said Mr. Rae. to hav» those men in Xew Zealand, deveiopinj? land and making homes, than makinif farms on the Yorkshire Moors.