CONTROL OF MIGRATION.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 26 June 1926, Page 9

CONTROL OF MIGRATION.

Decisions of International Congress. • AUSTRALIA’S POLICY OPPOSED. By Cable —Press Assocffttloa*—Copyrlsnl. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association (Received. June 25, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, June 24. At the International Migration Congress, Mr Mertens (Belgium) said his country was as strongly opposed to the policy of Australia and Canada as Poland and Italy. •Mr Brown (secretary), in summing up, said it was the extreme viewpoints of Australia and Canada on the one hand, and India on tho other,,, that made tho Congress valuable.

AUSTRALIA’S ATTITUDE. MAINTAINING STANDARD OP LIVING. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, June 24. Speaking at the World Migration Congress, Mr Kit-son (Australia) .said Australia did not object to European migrants, so long as they could be absorbed without detriment to the workers already there. The Australian standard of living u;as equal to anything in tho world, and they were determined to maintain it. Mr Wilson (New Zealand) suggested that the proposed migration office should be merged in tho Intel-national Labour Office at Geneva with branches in every country and containing adequate trades union representation. New Zealand’s objections to wholesale migration were based solely on social and racial grounds, and applied equally to Europeans and people of Eastern races.