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CONDITIONS IN BRITAIN. MIGRATION HAS NO APPEAL. VALUE OF TRADES. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Received April 14, 7.50 p.m. London, April 14, Sir Joseph Cook (High Commissioner for Australia), speaking at Brighton on the opening of the conference of teachers of handicrafts, expressed the opinion that it was “infinitely more difficult to get suitable migrants for the Dominions owing to tire increased number of recipients of the dole.” “We cannot got them while they can sit at home and do so immensely well for themselves,” said Sir Joseph. “Few youug men from British cities are any good as migrants. They have minds created by the dole and pictures, and this is closely related to the unemployable mind. The beet migrants are those who have been taught the use of tools. The cure for the ‘ca’ canny’ and unemployable mind is to get boys to like their jobs. One way to do this is the development of handicraft teaching.” Sir J. A. Cockburn urged that every man should have a trade to fall back upon as a last resource.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 April 1925, Page 5
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