EMPIRE EMIGRATION
Per Press Association— Copyright. LONDON, August 1. The Labour Conference discussea Inter-Dominions emigration, and examined a written statement regarding the conditions in New Zealand in which Mr Nash (secretary of the New Zealand Labour Party) pointed out that housing conditions in many of the large cities of New Zealand were disgraceful. He alluded to the acute periodical unemployment. The statement concludes: The workers’ genera] standard of living in New Zealand is higher than in Britain; workers in New Zealand do not want to selfishly debar their fellow workers from overseas, but will fight any attempt to flood New Zealand with such an amount of surplus labour as to be a menace to conditions.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 3 August 1925, Page 2
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115EMPIRE EMIGRATION Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 3 August 1925, Page 2
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