EMPIRE MIGRATION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 733, 4 February 1910, Page 5

EMPIRE MIGRATION.

A SUGGESTION,

BRITISH CITIES SHOULD OWN LAND OVERSEAS. / By Telegraph—Press ABSOoiatioa—Oopyrltcht London, February 2. - Sir Reginald Enock, the traveller, in a paper read before. the Royal Society of Arts,' ; remarked'that ; trade and! commerce were an insufficient, means, of,-livelihood for 'the- British people, nor "were thej : alono an adequato ■ basis for. Imperial unity. Ho recommended that , every muiuci* :pality- : and urban district in/the ./United. Kingdom' should'.acquire - ak area of free .land, 1 in the overseas ■ dominions, to 'hold in perpetuity as a heritage for. lii people, developing, the land for, their needs, and creating : : new,.' sources ;, ofr industry and rovonue. ! The speaker !.argued ,that ..valuable .ma-' teriftl," both labour and . land,, was> now pasting. ' ,'Ai ' association. of . London city men : should lead'the way—rsecure a-Jarge area of colonial land> raise.. a . working capital; and form a new and valuable permanent • property.-- forthe- benefitof LohdonJ,!: : : Dr. Hillier, MJV who . presided, said the. problem, vcarefrd;' consideration,- in' view.; ; of -. .. the: -great,, un-. .developed'resources ":of.the overseas dominions, ; arid the * distress • and poverty in )the .ohief of the i Mother, Cotmtry;.:X ; ; k-J' Sir John Taverner, Agent-General for Victoria, said it would be a: wise policy :for.v , the'^MotheHalld• .the, dominionfl to collaborate "in peopling the . various; parts of tho Empire. 'He'favoured;the establishment- of .•]an,! Imperial!; Council, and representation of the colonies in the House of Lords. Other speakers doubted whether the; colonies would earmark land for the pur* pose) \tiutagreed"that the ; time /wasripe for an Imperial' Conference on migration within the Empire.

VICTORIA WANTS SETTLERS FOR / IRRIGABLE LANDS. TTAT.TANS IN AUSTRALIA. Melbourne, February 3. ■ The State Cabinet has decided to send a mission abroad to secure, settlers. for '■ irrigable lands.- Mr. Mead, the i Government irrigation export,'.: : will,visitiEngland •and 'America in company with :the Hon. Mr. Bailliou, 1 Minister for "Works, to induce immigrants, to,. settle, in; Victoria. : . ' Professor ..Capra, Doctor of Science in Agriculture, who recently visited Australia' to, inquire jinti i'the. condition: of) Italians there,' and to consider . the . details. of colonial expansion,. in .his report speaks eulogistically.; of.'. :Austraha, ■ where • the condition of; Italians, is, better, generally than in Amcrica. . He.', states that; there', are eight thonsarid Italians; in ; Australia;