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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17958, 9 December 1932, Page 5

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EMPIRE MIGRATION

DISCUSSION IN COMMONS ,

LONDON, Deo. 8,

A brief debate on migration arose in the House of Commons on .the motion of Sir Shirley Bonn, urging the Government to secure the co-opera-tion of the Dominions in comprehensive schemes. He thought the time opportune to press the subject on business lines.

Mr A. A. Somerville, in seconding the motion, suggested a board of five business men to survey the Empire opportunities. He himself favored chartered companies with Government guarantees. Captain F. E. Guest advocated mass migration of Empire communities under the supervision of the State until the migrants had settled in the new surroundings. Mr J. H. Thomas expressed general agreement with the purpose of the motion. It was true that the Empire spirit was not lacking to-day. There had never been below 50,000 people ready and anxious to go overseas, but the Dominions had tile same problem of unemployment as ourselves. Nothing was more ridiculous than to send people there at present, but the machinery should bo kept ready._ He believed that there were 32 societies engaged in the promotion of emigration. He felt sure that they could more effectively work as one organisation. He hoped that the day was not far distant when the Dominions would be able to welcome those anxious to go there. ■