EMPIRE MIGRATION
NEWSPAPERS’ ASSISTANCE SEVERAL SUGGESTIONS. LONDON, May 20. Following the recent Press Conference in Australia, the Empire Press Union arranged for a meeting of representative pressmen and migration officials, at which a committee was appoitned to form a permanent link between the newspapers and the authorities. This committee has now recommended various methods for assisting migration, which the newspapers arc urged to carry out, including (1) a periodic migration column, comprising answers to correspondents and settlers’ experiences, in which not favourable reports only will be givosj prominence; (2) advocacy of the training of town dwellers before migration; (3) sending copies of migrants’ letters to the Overseas Settlement Department to enable it to deal with complaints and suggestions; (4) the devotion of more space to official migration reports. "CATCH THEM YOUNG" DUKE OF YORK’S ADVICE. SETTLING CHILDREN IN THE DOMINIONS.
(A. & N.Z.) PERTH, May 21. The Duke of York, during his visit to Fairbridge Farm School at Pinjarra, said that he regarded child migration as a possible solution to the problem, by settling young Britons in the Dominions. A knowledge of the country where they wore going to live could only be gained by growing up in it. They would never have those recollections tended to unsettled adult migrants.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19847, 23 May 1927, Page 7
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209EMPIRE MIGRATION Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19847, 23 May 1927, Page 7
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