EARLY RESUMPTION
BRITISH MIGRATION RESOLUTION IN LONDON HUGE LOAN URGED (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, Oct. 12. A loan of £50,000,000 for Empire settlement was urged at the migration conference at the Guildhall by Mr. John Wardlaw-Milne, who dealt with the economics of migration. Speakers favoured the establishment of an independent corporation untrammelled by the Government for the administration of such vast financial resources. Sir John Wardlaw-Milne suggested a full time authority, backed by Government loan, working in the Dominions and having power to sanction capital loans for approved schemes and also controlling annual grants ir aid of the present basis of £1,500,000 Under the Empire Settlement Act the board should also not be bound by the allocation of Dominions’ contributions. The conference passed a resolution in favour of early resumption of migration, urging the British Government to call a conference w’th Do. minions’ representatives, and also tc
establish non-Governmental statutory authority to control migration and extend credit facilities.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 244, 14 October 1937, Page 7
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