“NOT SENDING OUR UNEMPLOYABLES.”

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18550, 25 August 1928, Page 12

“NOT SENDING OUR UNEMPLOYABLES.”

BRITAIN’S MESSAGE TO DOMINIONS ON MIGRATION QUESTION. (United Press Aasn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. ) (Received August 25, 1 p.m.) QUEBEC, August 24. “Members of the Imperial Parliament wish to make it absolutely clear that the Homeland is not asking the dominions to take her unemployables,” Viscount Peel, chairman of the delegation from the Empire Parliamentary Association, stated to-day. “The Homeland desires to give her best in the interests of the Empire, not only to strengthen ourselves but to strengthen the Empire. The more we can develop Empire trade the more rapidly we can carry through redistribution of the white population which is absolutely vital, not only to Great Britain but in an equal degree, we believe, to the other communities of the Commonwealth, as there is an unemployment problem in several dominions besides the Homeland.” At the luncheon to-morrow Viscount Peel will reply to the speeches of welcome on behalf of all the delegates. At the dinner, Sir T. W. Glasgow, M.P., head of the Australian delegation, will speak. Fifty-four delegates are attending the conference, twenty from Great Britain, four each from N*ew Zealand. India, the Irish Free State and Australia, eight from South Africa, nine' from Newfoundland, two from Malta and one from Southern Rhodesia.—Australian Press Association-United Service.