EMIGRATION.
GROWTH OF DOMINIONS.
A STRIKING ADDRESS. V BY CABLS FBE9S ASSOCIATION— COrtRIOHT.) . (AUSTRALIA:; AXD !?.=. CABI.B ASSOCIATION.) ■ Received January 9th, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, January 7. Within twenty years the number of whites iu tho Dominions should be 25 ; 000,000, declared Sir Charles Close in his presidential address to the Geographical Society. The- British Commonwealth was not in .1 healthy state so long as it had au overstrained and overtaxed heart. There, wore probably 5,000,000 too many people in Britain. Unless the general standard of living in Britain was to decline, there must be a bold efficient emigration policy. Tho average exodus of migrants since the War had been 120,000 yearly. This was insufficient. The Dominions ought to bo able to absorb live per thousand of their population, equal to 100,000 migrants annually. This was in addition to the British quota to the United States uf 34,000. Britain's population was still increasing, but there was ample evidonco that the rate of increase was declining. Ho estimated that the population would be stationary in 1949.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18895, 10 January 1927, Page 9
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173EMIGRATION. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18895, 10 January 1927, Page 9
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