DOMINION'S FUTURE
, NEED FOR MIGRANTS LORD BLEDISLOE'S VIEWS (Received October 25, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. Oct. <24 The former Governor-General of New Zealand, Viscount Blodisloe, addressing the Royal Empire Society at Bristol, said he did not see a future for New Zealand unless, without undue delay, the Dominion welcomed sounrl British human and animal stock as well as British capital, industrial enterprise and brains. He did not know a greater economic fallacy than that normal unemployment was intensified by organised migration.
MIGRATION QUESTION
DEPUTATION TO MR. THOMAS SUBSTANTIAL NEED URGED LONDON. Oct. 24 The Lord Mayor of Newcastle, Mr. R. S. Dalgliesh, led a deputation which waited upon the Dominions Secretary, Mr. J. H. Thomas, urging the need of substantial migration. To safeguard migration, said Mr. Dalgliesh. future schemes must be adequately financed and the interests of migrants protected. A co-ordinating committee should be appointed under the chairmanship of tlio Under-Secretary for the Dominions. Mr. Thomas replied that it was not right to ask people to migrate unless they were welcome in the Dominions. If a proper scheme of co-operation with the Dominions were worked out the Government would give it every assistance.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22250, 26 October 1935, Page 13
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