The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1915. AFTER THE WAR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 42, 19 June 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1915. AFTER THE WAR.

Lecturing before the Royal Society of Arts in London a few weeks ago Mr Moreton Frewen directed attention to tiie Pacific Ocean as a profitable field for British fishermen, and advocated the offering of special facilities for our soldiers and sailors to find new openings for peaceful industry at the close of the war. Air Freven, who

was referring chiefly to the Northern Pacific, dwelt on what he described as the pleasant and remunerative life which such places offered for those who, after the unsettlement of some months of life on Europe’s battle-’ fields, might not be inclined to return to the limited possibilities which a return to the Old Country when the war is over might mean. While the suggestion that / fishing colonies be founded has something to recommend' it, it would not lie all quite plain sail-' ing. British Columbia, for instance, where much fine salmon-fishing is carried on, is pretty well in the hands of big factory- syndicates, and there is! little’chance of founding such an idea] colony as Mr Frewen imagines in that part. The Pacific Islands fishing is also hardly the sort of work ex-sol-diers are likely to be looking for. At present Chinese, Japanese and Kanakas have t very largely to themselves, and there is not much anxiety to dispossess them on the part of the white residents of the localities referred to. But there is one thing certain : there will be room for plenty of ex-soldiers and sailors in these southern lands in addition to all onr own men who may happily return safely to their homes amongst ns.