EMPIRE MIGRATION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 832, 2 June 1910, Page 5

EMPIRE MIGRATION.

4 BRITISH GOVERNMENT LOANS PROPOSED. rty Telegraph—Press Aseociation-Oopyririit London, May 31. The Colonial Institute's Emigration Conference has asked the Government to hold a subsidiary conference to formulate proposals for submission to the Imperial Conference- of 1911. It has also urged the Board of Trade to grant lunns uinlei thfc Labour Ex. changes Act to workpeople going to ilie colonies to get work. Lord Urnssey urged the expediency of the Government making a beginning by granting .£IO,OOO, to be admi'nistcred under Government .supervision by the existing emigration societies. AN EXTENSIVE CANADIAN SCHEME. BENEVOLENT CONSIDERATION BY BOARD OF TRADE. (Kec. June 1, 10.25 p.m.) London, June 1. At tho Emigration Conference Mr. C. S. Goldman (Unionist M.P.) advocated a Central Emigration Bureau, composed of representatives of Britain and each emi-grant-receiving colony, the bureau to be connected with local committees. Man-Power the Real Military Problem, Mr. L. C. M. S. Aniery (of "The Times" staff, editor of "The Times" History of tho South African War, and author of "Fundamental Fallacies of Free-trade") declared: "We are holding territories enough for half-a-dozen Empires, without the population to defend them. "Whnt could Australia's four million population do against' the hundred millions developing in the East? Or what could Canada's seven million do against the ninety millions of the United States? "Military organisation is a detail. The real thing is the man-power." Shipping Company's Financial Project. Allan Brothers (of the great trans-At-lantic Allan line, which has been running between Canada and Great Britain since 1554) submitted a scheme for sending to Canada 2000 pioneers, their wives, and ■1000 children inlillO; and 5000 men and their wives and 10,000 children in subsequent years. Each head of a family is to be provided with a credit for the equipment of a homestead, the whole cost, including fidelity bond, to be £150 per family, which will be advanced at 7 per cent, interest, repayable in seven years. It is estimated that the scheme could be administered upon , a maximum credit of £2,250,000, which will eventually fall below a million. The scheme will provide for 20,000 people, will pay interest at 3 per cent., and will furnish a reserve of £30,000 per annum, leaving £10,000 per annum for administration in Britain. Position of State Labour Exchanges. Colonel Murray, of the Government Labour Exchanges' central offices, stated that the Board of Trade was considering the relation of labour exchanges to emigration benevolently, and was also considering Allan Bros.' scheme. It resembled the crofters' cultivation echeme, which was an undoubted success. ATTITUDE OF AGENTS-GENERAL. , (Eec. Juno 1, 11.40 p.m.) London, June 1. Sir John Tavcrner, Agent-General for Victoria, interviewed by the "Standard of Empire," stated that he did not attend the conference because his staff and the Victorian Government's agents in Britain were quite competent to deal with emigration policy without outsido interference. It was not for Sir Clement Kin-loch-Cookc to dictate the policy that certain States should adopt with regard to emigration. , . Unlike Sir John Taverner, Mr. Coghlan (New South Wales) and other AgentsGeneral furnished tho conference with particulars asked for regardiug tho class of settlers which their States desired, and details as to facilities and assistance offered to immigrants and as tn the homesteads available. Mr. Hall-Jones, High Commissioner for New Zealand, furnished similar information.

Mr. M'Call, Agent-General for Tasmania, states that his sympathy is with the conference, but that it is undesirable that official representation should partake in an unofficial gathering. CANADIAN RESTRICTIONS. (Rec. June 1, 11.40 p.m.) London, June 1. The Toronto correspondent of "The Times" reports that the British Government has protested to the Canadian Government against its immigration regulations requiring a new arrival (except farmlabourers) to have .£5 and a stated sum for each member of his family. SETTLERS FOR VICTORIA; London, May 31. The Victorian Agent-General, Sir J. W. Taverner, has toured Kent and arranged for the visit of Messrs. M'Kenzie and Mead, who are in search of settlers for Victoria's irrigation lands.