CONDITIONS IN CANADA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14237, 3 March 1917, Page 5

CONDITIONS IN CANADA.

DOMINION COMMISSION'S REPORT. EMIGRATION~AND OTHER SUBJECTS. (Elec. Tel. Copyright— United Press Assn.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received March 3, 10.60 a.m.) LONDON, March 2. The Dominions' Commission report ou Canada states that there is a strong under-current of opposition to emigration from Canada as now carried on, particularly among the wago-earners of tho cities. The Commission agrees that the objection to creating- surplus labor m the cities is well founded. Too much attention has hitherto been devoted to attracting immigrants and too little attention* to equipping them. The report emphasises the growing shortage of agricultural land available for settlement m Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. If th© demand for land after the war is equal to that before the war ib wsJll exhaust the available Government land within four years. The New Zealand Government's subsidising of stc&niship services has considerably assisted the Canada-New Zcalaiul trade. It was regrettable that British shipping companies m Canada sometimtes charge lowen freights for foreign goods than British goods m the same ship and for longer distances. ' The Imperial Gover-rrt_t_.it should impose a conf_poj of. rates upon cable companies before renewing landing licenses. The existing press rates m Canada and the United.. Kingdom v-ere over-high cpfrtpared with ' the 'AngloAustralian press ratbs*/ 'The Canadian newspapers, tlie Government, and the cable companies should reorganise the press geryice. The Commission wasj, "greatly interested m Mr. W. '-'&. /CoriW's suggestion, made to jWiriliif^SgV'ihSl • m'straHan and s Canadian \ neWspaprt ; s t .sh'o,nld unite iri '> new_ service, rt>y ; ' which 'the Australian. Press Association Would supply'; Australian and ."-Jew Zfajaud newspapers.' The Commission deals with a Statecontrolled cjflljLa m the next report.'