EMPIRE SETTLEMENT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11223, 31 May 1922, Page 5

EMPIRE SETTLEMENT

PEOPLING OF THE LAND HOUSE OF LOROS PASS SECOND HEADING OF BILL. DOMINION WANTS FARMERS. By Teleeraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received May 30 a do p.m. 7 LONDON, May ‘Jd. The llou«o of Lords read the Empire Settlement- Bill a secoiu.’ time. Lord Crawiord emphasised that it would not mean emigration but migration within the Empire, and tend to reduce undesirable migrants.

MEASURE EXPOUNDED

ITS FUTURE ADMINISTRATION. (Received Mav SO. 9.-35 p.m.) LONDON, May 30. Mr L. C. Amery, M.P., Parlia* nientary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, expounding the Empire Settlement Bill at u meeting tonight, expressed hit- obligation to the Parliamentary party for the generous and sympathetic reception of the bill, which was now only awaiting the concurrence of tho Horn*.* of Lords. Referring to the future administration of tho Bill, he said he was not in favour, of free passages-. Ho preferred advances which the im mi grants would repay, thus encouraging self-reliance. Ko hoped to be able to co-operate with the Dominions in promoting land settlement, the peopling of tho land being tho first essential in all migration schemes. It was no good, ho said, sending industrial workers to swell the unemployed, which was already over-swollen in Sydney and Melbourne. Australia and New Zealand must have more farmers, not industrialists. He therefore attached importance to land settlement schemes like the West Australian Premier*# proposals, which would open up new areas. He welcomed schemes to encourage individual settlement by providing separate holdings. He urged the preliminary agricultural training of young migrants before leaving Britain, and advocated boy and girt migration at formative age# when theyl are most capable of becoming good sottlers overseas. He wold gladly foe* ter boy and girl emigration aa fat as the Bill permitted.