BRITISH AFFAIRS

Southland Times, Issue 19773, 22 February 1923, Page 5

BRITISH AFFAIRS

BRITAIN’S SURPLUS SALVATIONISTS’ IMMIGRATION SCHEME (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association). LONDON, February 20. (Received February 21, 7.15 p.m.) Commissioner Lamb of the Salvation Army, read a paper on migration before the conference of poor law guardians. He suggested that if the trade unions were prepared to consider a settlement scheme, they might, reasonably expect the Overseas Settlement Committee to contribute a third of the cost, the dominions another third, and the guardians the remainder. Restrictions on immigration should run parallel with the British exodus to the Dominions. It would be supreme folly if, while Britons were pouring out of the West and South, alien races, upon whom nothing like the whites, social and economic laws were operating, were permitted to crowd the eastern shores. BRITISH SETTLERS. LONDON, February 20. It was announced in the House of Commons that emigrants placed under the Overseas Settlement Act were: Australia 9fi62, New Zealand 1546, Canada 120. THE BANK AFFRAY. LONDON, February 20. The man arrested in connection with the Hurlston Park bank hold-up died shortly after being locked up. It is thought he took jMjison prior to being arrested. HISTORICAL FIND. LONDON, February 20. (Received February 21, 5.5 p.m.) Lord Desborough excavated a great mound at Taplow Hill and found the remains of Ella, King of the South Saxons, who organised the invasion of Britain and the relays of fighting men who, after the fall of London in the year 491, swept up the Thames Valley. A GENEROUS GIFT. LONDON, February 20. (Received February 21, 5.5 p.m.) Sir Alfred Yarrow, a shipbuilder, has given the Royal Society £lOO,OOO for scientific research, preferably to be used to aid scientific workers by adequate payment and the supply of apparatus, rather than the erection of costly buildings. MR LLOYD GEORGE SPEAKS

LONDON, February 20.

(Received February 21, 9.15 p.m.)

Mr Lloyd George at a dinner at the 1920 Club, to celebrate National Liberal victories at the General Election said: “We have emerged from one of the most difficult, most complicated, and baffling struggles I was ever engaged in. Socialists bombed us from the air, while other enemies attacked us from below, but I am proud of our record. We aimed at restoring a devastated world by means of peace, which is the basis of everything. We are in a minority in the House of Commons but represent a majority of votes at the last election. France should remember that.” SCOTT MEMORIAL LONDON, February 20. A meeting of the committee of the Captain Scott Memorial Fund decided to accept the Admiralty’s offer of a site at Mount Wise, Devonport, Scotts birthplace for a statue of the famous explorer by the late A. H. Hodge. NAURU PHOSPHATES. LONDON, February 20. Replying to a question regarding the disposal of Nauru phosphates to Britain Major Barnston said a contract for the disposal of the Unied Kingdom’s share in 1921-22 was given to the English Fertiliser Company wnth a provision for limiting profits. It is understood a considerable quantity remained in the company’s hands unsold; consequently negotiations for a further contract for five years failed. The price charged at present was 22d per unit of phosphate. _____