MIGRATION PROBLEMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18875, 30 May 1923, Page 7

MIGRATION PROBLEMS

OVERSEAS SETTLEMENT

BETTER DISTRIBUTION URGED,

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, May 28. Mr L. S. Amery, kpeaking at the Society for the Overseas Settlement of British Women, said the uovernment wished to deter immigrants going to the dominions who would be failures. The Government also desired to remove the waste owing to the right people not getting opportunities. It was a fundamental fallacy to think that the Government encouraged overseas settlement rather than face the obligations of social reform at home. “We believe,” he said, “that a policy of better distribution of the Empire’s population will make for permanent employment and the well-being the British people. It is untrue to say that Empire settlement is a policy of exile. A Londoner going to the dominions would not find himself half such a stranger as he does when he gees to Glasgow, and a' Scotsman feels more at home in Melbourne or Dunedin than in Birmingham or Coventry.”—A. and N.Z. Cable. ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS. STATEMENT IN THE COMMONS. LONDON, May 28. Colonel Buckley, in the House of Commons, said that the number who had proceeded overseas in March and April with free or assisted passages were:—Australia, 2556 in March, 1822 in April; New Zea-, land, 520 in March, 486 in April; Canada, 181 in March, 228 in April.—A. and N.Z. Cable.