BRITISH MIGRATION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 243, 13 October 1937, Page 7

BRITISH MIGRATION

MOVEMENT IN LONDON DEVELOPMENT BOARD URGED I NEW ZEALAND’S NEED By Telegraph—Preus Association—Copyright) Received Oct. 12, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 11. “Aliens who have no link with or .oyalty to the Empire and whose standard of Jiving is low and peopling the empty spaces of the Dominions,” said Sir George Broadridge, Lord Mayor of London, opening a three-day conference on Empire migration and development at the Guildhall, called ,jy voluntary bodies. More than 400 persons, including representatives of Dominion Central Governments, State or provincial Governments, heads of municipalities in Lhe United Kingdom, and representatives of migration organisations, are taking part. The conference is not directed towards securing a return to Lhe unrestricted migration of the past Lo the Dominions out at organised migration, selected families to oc established not only on the land but also in all forms of industry and development. Widespread unemployment and the absence of opportunities for families in Britain demanded a solution, and the Dominions had limitless undeveloped resources and could supply work and a livelihood toe vast numbers, the Lord Mayor said. Lord Horne said that the post-war collapse of migration was a potential danger to the Empire, it was a fallacy to believe that migrants would deprive people in the Dominions of work. It was also wrong to concentrate on placing immigrants on the land in the Dominions. Secondary as well as primary activities should be extended. Lord Horne advocated the formation of an Imperial development board representative of the engineering industry, commerce, and research workers, with a permanent secretariat. Capital and Brains For New Zealand. Lord Bledisloe, on behalf of 20 New Zealand organisations, said that New Zealand was capable of absorbing from 10 to 20 million Britishers within the next half-century. New Zealand’s crying need wat British capital and brains. If tha capital was not forthcoming privately, it should be furnished by the British Government by loans al a low rate of interest to companies and corporations. Secondary industry would in-evitably-expand in New Zealand. If ths Dominion was not backed by British capital foreigners would step in. No country was more vulnerable than New Zealand. was badly .needed for defence, but there must ba an end to the haphazard influx.