BRITISH EMIGRANT'S.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 94, 10 June 1911, Page 6

BRITISH EMIGRANT'S.

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DISCUSSION AT THE CONFERENCE. (Received 10, 11.15 a.m.) London June 9. At the lmpc;ial Conference, Mr ILuvoiii.. presiding, -Ur Fisher formally moved the re-allirmalion ot the xiili immigration resolution. iuj batcneloi said the conference v, mlcl don hi less agic-o to encourage •.•migration n iiliin the Empiyc. Australia, like the other dominiim?,, v„ r. d;awi.ig on Biitaiu for a poiiion oi her popiiiation and was naturally anxious that own race should lie kept within the Empire. There seemed to lie some of precise infonnalion in tlic Fauigraiu-s' Jntorniation Departments, and suggested the inclusion of reprcseutaiives ol the •do-iiiinioi-is 011 a cninmiltee widen would increase its knowledge. Sir L) G, Waul said New Zealand did rot favour any wholesale system of emigration, and naluralE p.vlcrred Britirdieih. New Zealand imposed a strict test merely to exclude aliens, and ho saw no reason to change Ins 190.' views. The linn. John Burns said that since last conference the objects ol the resolution had boon secured to a great extent. The dominions in 190/ received 51 per cent of the British emigrants and (T per cent in 1910, whiie the figures tor tour months in 1911, if maiuiained, would sliow eighty per cent. In the latter period Australia and New Zealand received ten thousand more than in the corresponding period ol 1910. Ibis increase justified the work and organisation ol the Emigration Department. T'iie type of emigrants had also improved. Emigration in 1910 represented sixty per cent of the United Kingdom’s natural increase, and a lower death Fate and a lower infantile mortality a 10)30 prevented the drain being serious. With a diminishing birth rate it was unsafe for Britain to exceed 300,000 emigrants yearly. ■ (Received 10, 1.15 p.m.) ■ Loudon, June 9. At the Conference, Mr. Burns’s statement was accepted as quite satisfactory. Mr. Batchelor said that any efforts to reduce the twenty per cent, of emigrants at present going outside the Empire would ho appreciated. Sir Joseph Ward said that if tlie Dominions were receiving SO per cent, that was as much as they could expect. He suggested altering the resolution to express approval of the policy pursued. Otherwise it might appear that they wore dissatisfied with what had been done. Mr Fisher offered no objection. Mr Harcourt suggested the elimination of the appointment of overseas representatives to the ■Emigrants Committee. The Department had act been designed to promote emigration to any particular dominion. Sts only object was to supply accurate information. If representation were introduced competition might arise He would undertake to keep the information of the Department up-to-date. Mr Fisher said Australia had not applied the education tost to Europeans, although for five years a thousand newspapers had vilified them as doing so. There was a greater knowledge of Australian affairs in England to-day than there was nine years ago, and he recognised the good work dope by the various departments in effecting this change. Mr Harcourt moved that the present policy of encouraging emigrants to go to the dominions in'preference to foreign countries bo continued and that full co-operation be acceded the dominions. The amended resolution was adopted. Mesdamos Fisher and McGowan will participate in the Women’s Social and Political Union’s procession along the Embankment to Albert Hall on I Tine 17th.