EMPIRE MIGRATION

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 828, 28 May 1910, Page 5

EMPIRE MIGRATION

SIR G. REID.

HIS NEW LABOUR MASTERS

INTERPOSE,

ADVERTISEMENT CANCELLED.

liyTclcjrrnDh-Prens Association—Ooovrlebf, Melbourne, May 27. Mr. E. L. Batehelor, Federal Minister for External Affairs, has directed Sir George Reitl, High Commissioner for the Commonwealth, to withdraw the advertisement in the English papers dealing with production in Australia, and which has been published with a view to attracting immigrants.

The Minister considers this and somo other published information exaggerated and misleading.

Tho Trades Hall Council Imb appointed a deputation to interview Mr. Fisher, Federal Prime Minister, and to protest against Sir G. Reid's immigration policy, as misleading. SIR CEORCE EXPLAINS. AGAINST AN ODIOUS MONEY LINE. London, May 26. The Australian High Commissioner, Sir George Reid, interviewed with regard to Australian opinions concerning his speech cabled on April 1, said that any distinction between healthy Poor Law children and those of other classes was drawing a most odious money line.

"But, he added, the emigration of young people must be strictly safeguarded, and must be limited to absolute requirements. There should be homes in the interior where poor children could await opportunities.

[In the speech referred to, Sir George Reid said it was his aim to turn the streams of emigration to greater extent to areas within the Empire. Australia wanted to take not merely men, but children. Tens of thousands of English girls and boys were brought up atgreat cost by the Poor Law institutions, and at the age of sixteen were thrown on their own resources. Ho would make strong representations to his Government, so that these young people could ba taken from their bleak homes in the Motherland to the free spaces of Australia, where they would be. welcome. Juvonilte emigration. Sir George Eeid affirmed, was the . best emigration for Australia.]

REMEDY FOR DISJOINTED EFFORT. CO-ORDINATION OF SOCIETIES' WORK. London, May 26. At a conference of emigration societies, convened by the Colonial Institute, 132 delegates will represent 44 emigration societies. The chief object of the conference is to establish a permanent standing committee on which all the societies will bo represented.