MIGRATION PROPOSALS.
CO-OPERATION WITH DOMINION. DEPUTATION TO MINISTER. GOVERNMENT AID PROMISED. Jnited Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received Oct- 25, 3 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 24. The Lord Mayor of Newcastle led a deputation 'to Mr J. 11. Thomas, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, . urging the need for substantial migration. To safeguard migration, he said, future schemes must be adequately financed and the interests of migrants protected. A Co-Ordinating Committee should toe appointed, with the Under-Secretary for the Dominions as chairman.
Mr Thomas replied that it was not .right' to ask people to migrate unless *mey were welcome in the Dominions. If a proper scheme of co-operation with the Dominions was worked out the Government would give it every assistance.
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19716, 25 October 1935, Page 8
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