CANADIAN EMIGRATION

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3019, 5 March 1917, Page 5

CANADIAN EMIGRATION

DOMINIONS' COMMISSION REPORT ■• ' - London, . March« 2. The Dominions' Commission report On Canada states that there _is a, strong undercurrent of opposition to , . emigration'-to Canada- as now carried on, particularly among the., wagc-earn-icrs in cities. The Commission, agrees ■■tha/u' tho objection to creating surplus labour in cities is well founded. Too tr.uch attention Mtbdrto has, been deVoted to attracting immigrants and. " Jtoo little attention to equipping tljeiu. / Tho report emphasises the growing shortage of agricultural land available for settlement in Manitoba, Saskatchewan,, and Alberta. If the demand for land after the.war is equal to that before the war it will exhaust'-- the Available Government laud within four ■years. Tho subsidising of; steamship services by the New Zealand Govcrnjnent had considerably assisted Can- * sdian and New Zealand trade. It was . [regrettable that British shipping companies in Canada sometimes charged Jower freights on foreign goods than 'British goods in the same ship and .travelling longer distances. The Imperial Government should iniposo control of j rates upon cable companies before renewing the landing Ji- ■ censes. Tho existing Press rates be-

ireeen Canada and the United KingHorn were ofc.er-high compared with the Anglo-Australian Press rates. The Canadian newspapers, the Government, ,' . and cable companies should organise Hie Press service. The Commission was greatly interested in Mr. Conloy's suggestion, made at Winnipeg, that Hhe Australian and Canadian newspapers should unite in a new service which . itho Australian Press Association should supply Australian and New Zealand [newspapers. Tho Commission ■ deals' with the State-controlled Atlantic cable in its nest report.-yAus.-N.Z.' Cable Assn.