AFTER THE WAR.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11730, 21 June 1916, Page 1

AFTER THE WAR.

SETTLING SOLDIERS IN CANADA. , The report of the Ontario Commission regarding tho measures which need to be taken in emigration and land settlement is receiving a good deal of attention over hero. Even before the wa i\ the success of the British Government Bureau in relieving congestion of labour in some parts of the United Kiu.gri'oni and ; -e.m'ily of labour in others, had canned the (juestion io bo asked : Why not an Imperial Migration Board : why not an arrangement between the Home and the overseas Governments by which suitable labour anxious to transfer itself where conditions were more favourable should receive the necessary assistance? "When Sir George Askwith returned from Canada tho question was considered very ripe for treatment, and in a statement lie made at that time, he alluded' with enthusiasm to the splendid opportunities that would thereby be given. Considering the small extent to-which the wage earners aro laying by for the inevitable period of reaction, if not in employment, at all events in wages, which it is generally believed must follow the war. it is certain that an immense number will find themselves lacking the_ means to emigrate, especially those with families. The number of released soldiers, thoroughly fit and anxious for work on the land." will present a problem in itself. But it is no longer entirely England's problem ; Canada has made that sufficiently clear already; and the feature of the report of the Ontario Commission that is most remarked on is the underlying thought that Ontario, at least, is going to help in post-war problems just as ardently as has been the ease in the stern tangle of the war. No doubt is felt that this is also tho feeling of Canada as a whole, and there is warm appreciation of the fact. In any event, as a Canadian colanol whimsically observed the other day. whether or not an emigration policy is put iorth, the arrangements will proceed unofficially, for the Canadian soldiers at tho front have formed "elationships with the British soldiers much will result in the transfer to the Dominion of a lar°;c mimber. " Start a campaign," he added "and give it a name, sav 'Take a chum to Canada with you, and you will find' that the Canadian contingents will return to the Dominion iu double strength."