OVERSEAS SETTLEMENT
CONFERENCE INQUIRY EACH DOMINION'S PLANS THE ATTITUDE OF BRITAIN By Telegraph—Press Assn.—-Copyright. Received Nov. 3, 5:5 p.m. London, Nov. 2. Committee work occupied the attention of the Imperial Conference to-day. The sub-committee of the Imperial Conference dealing with overseas settlement is now discussing the possibilities with the individual Dominions, special attention being devoted to Australia. Mr. Gepp, chairman of the Australian Immigration and Research Commission, privately outlined what Australia hoped to do. To-morrow Canada will explain her plans and then Mr. Gepp will take up the running on Thursday. It is gathered that the British authorities are playing the part of observers in the hope of finding ways to stimulate the distribution <Y her surplus people and more satisfactorily using the British Parliament’s yearly votes, for overseas settlement-, the bulk of which now reverts to the Treasury as unexpended balances. The research committee discussed the question of organisation,, with a view to closer inter-relation of investigations all over the Empire.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 November 1926, Page 9
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