EMIGRATION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16906, 4 December 1922, Page 4

EMIGRATION.

A DOMINION APPEAL By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright Australian ant! N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON December i. Lord Haig, speaking a. Manchester, said ho had received a eiegiam from a Bci.vuton Governor, asking for £IOOO ti. help ex-soldiers who had emigrated. He was not going to advise emigration until ho knew that things were right. Lord Haig added: “ L want to hear of letters coining to our people from our colonies saying. 1 There is plenty oi work ; you will be all right if you come to us.’ I have letters from places like Queensland, and from some other Dominions, wanting many of our gallant men. They have none of thc-ir own starving. I am not going to be so unfriendly to our unemployed

.'X soldiers here as to advise them to emigrate until I know that things are all right. I am not going to tell them to leave here until the Dominions have set their own houses in order.” Sir Joseph Cook, High Commissioner for Australia, in an interview. said this was the most serious and most damaging attack yet made on the migration arrangements, especially in view of the speaker’s authority. Sir Joseph Cook quoted returns showing that in the last quarter of this year over 4250 ex-service men liad gone, or were going to Australia. All were requisitioned by the various Governments. who undertook to place them, and a large proportion were nominated by Australians, who were responsible for their welfare.