EMPTY LANDS.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 June 1923, Page 5

EMPTY LANDS.

MENACE TO THE EMPIRE. SURPLUS IN BRITAIN. (NEED TO EMIGRATE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received June 14, 5.5 p.m. London, June 13. Lord Strathspey, presiding at a conference of the Empire League for Overseas Settlement, at the Guildhall, said he spoke as a New Zealander, who had a practical and personal knowledge of the Dominions, upon which we largely depended for the Empire’s future. At no previous time in the Empire’s history was there such a sore need for solidarity between Britain and the Dominions, he said. Unless the Empire co-operated in transferring the surplus millions of Britain to the Empire Dominions Australia would inevitably become yellow and Canada would be absorbed by the United States. “Something must be done quickly in Britain to relieve the pressure of over a million unemployed.” he added, “otherwise we will be landed in a revolution. The conference adopted a series of resolutions urging further constructive measures on a joint Imperial and Dominion co-operative basis, the provision for elementary agricultural out-door training throughout Britain’s educational system, and recommending boards of guardians to establish training depots for prospective migrants, Britain and the Dominions jointly financing the scheme.