EMPIRE MIGRATION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17351, 16 May 1924, Page 11

EMPIRE MIGRATION.

GROUP SETTLEMENT. By Tel^fraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association (Received May 16. 1.15 p.m.) LONDON. May 10. Addressing a largely attended Empire Migration Conference at the Empire Exhibition, presided over by Lord Burnham, Mr M. C. Macnaghten. chairman of the Overseas Settlement Comniittce. suggested that there wae a chance for a wealthy philanthropist -bo present tome hundreds of listeningin sets to families settling in the .backblocks to eliminate the loneliness. Mr dynes expressed the opinion that, the most helpfnl and most successful form of migration was the group settlement of young men. Tie advocated getting she assistant?© and counsel of the big trade organisations 'in Britain. There should be no element of compulsion or appealing to poverty. The Government hoped to "prove itself non-ise inferior, to its previecessors in the encouragement given Ho migration. He believed thnt Hinder appropriate conditions <and on fair terms the transference of the surplus population of Britain to other lands would be an advantage to the ■"working classes remaining behind, as fyell as an enormous personal advantage to the migrants.