EXTRAVAGANT.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 28 May 1923, Page 8

EXTRAVAGANT.

EMPIRE MIGRATION SCHEME? Finance Expert Speaks Freely? CANNOT COMPEL MEN TO WORK! BY CABLE—PRESS ASSN.— COPYRIGHT (Received 9 p.m., May 27.) LONDO The “Financial Times” gives prominence to an article by Mr Harold Cox on the migration scheme negotiated by Sir W. Fuller, declaring that a more financially extravagant set,erne is hard to imagine.

THE writer asks—“ How is a lad of 18, when he lias completed his free training in Australia, to be compelled to work there if he prefers to return to England? How is a man after live' years rent on a farm to bo compelled to remain whoa the time for repayment begins? The offer of the use of £ISOO free of charge for five years will attract a good many people of the type who will prefer to pay nothing back. It is not explained how

What of Redistribution?

The writer alludes to the report of the Commonwealth Minister for Trade and Customs in 1922, urging the necessity of manufacturing development. He submits that this policy should be pursued by both the Home and the Dominions’ Governments instead of spending £9,000,000 on six thousand settlers, who may or may- not

many years are to be spent planting these 6000 settlers. “There is also the large question whether it is possible to get any appreciable redistribution of the population of Empire, merely by aiming at further development of agricultuie in the Dominions. TTe size of towns in Canada is increasing rapidly, while half the population of Australia' is concentrated in six capital cities.

repay the money advanced. Immediate inquiry ought to be conducted as to the desirability of establishing in Australia industries now carried on in the United Kingdom, also concerning means necessary to transplant them together with workpeople engaged.— A. and N.Z. Cable.