“TOO FEW PEOPLE IN DOMINIONS.”
BIG, BOLD EFFECTIVE SCHEME IS WANTED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received April 30 t 11 am.) LONDON, April 29. In the House of Commons, during the discussion on the Civil Service Estimates, Mr Waddington (Conservative), moved a motion urging a greater development of Empire trade. He adocated a survey of the dominions to see which would give the most fruitful return, chiefly in regard to railways. Sir j. Pennefather (Conservative), in seconding the motion, said that the dominions were the greatest customers per capita. The trouble was that, there were too few people there. That was the first difficulty to be overcome by big, bold, effective migration schemes. They wanted to reach the pre-war yearly total of 200,000. Mr Barnes (Labour) said that he would not be a party to the exploitation of coloured communities for the benefit of capitalists. He did not approach the problem from the viewpoint of making a self-contained British Commonwealth, which would build up racial hatred and prejudice, but from the more sensible standpoint that it presented a faovurable market which we were entitled to develop.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17834, 30 April 1926, Page 5
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