SAFEGUARD OF THE FUTURE

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 32, 2 November 1920, Page 7

SAFEGUARD OF THE FUTURE

MIGRATION OT? BRITISH PEOPLE.

Interviewed in Melbourne, Mr. T.. E. Sedgwick, who is vitally interested in the question of migration, said: _ "The fostoring of British migration to Australia is to safeguard the future. AVhero there is «n influx of emigrants from various nations the tendency is to set up racial communities, in which the strongest national sentiment is likely to be that of the soil they sprung from. Theso communities take much longer to assimilato than do individuals settled over a wide area among the native born. Scientific migration would not nllo\v tins to happen. In parts of Canada the P to leni was solved by what is known as tho checker-board system of settlement. An area which was to bo thrown open for selection was divided into blftck ( and "white" allotments. On the blapk allotments foroign born /SL': nUiced and on the white Canadia or British. In this way. everr alien had foul neighbours who were British m scntirneiit The result of such close intimaoj most cases was a perfect ?*«*»««! fusion, fervently Canadian. In anothei nort of Canada, two towns named rcspec tivelv Heidelberg and Berlin. iiiate? f>V a German vote _ protested .•'gainst Canada building warships for the fSrHTT ftpn "Australia roust fill empty fmnces. She has now l.< persons lo the square mile. Japan has 300. and Is no only overtaking tho wastage-by do Ml. niui immigration, but is adding thus people to the square mile overv vuiir. British methods in ROverrinß lmlialmve so reduced tho loss of ponulNation l n toease. famino and internal stufo, mat since that country came under our administrotion, tho population J' a3 f® u^ cd . I» another 70 or 80 .it nrobablv increased to a point at. yhicu the country cannot possibly ?" sl ™ n . Tt is now regarded as democratically * moral for an individual to bold more land than he can effectively utilise. If this bn true of tho individual it is also true of a nation, and Australia v\\\ iwod to mfiko out a stronger ease for occupation than she does now, if in the future her stewardship is challenged.