MIGRATION Should Be Recommenced

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 130, 18 June 1937, Page 5

MIGRATION Should Be Recommenced

Pres? Assn.-

MOTION BEFORE COMMONS ^ i j I , V Credit Facilities Would Encourage Scheme COLONIAL ATTITUDE

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(iteeeivea 10, ±i.u a.m./ LONDON, June 17; Sir Henry Page Croft, M.P., tabled a motion, supported by 244 G'onservatives, in favour "of an farly resumption of migration, Urging tlie Government to invitef*he Dominions to prepare for it, 4nd itself to jndicate its readiness fo grant credit facilities. k , The Rt. Hon. M. J. Sayage attended a-meeting of the Overseas Settlement Board, over which Lord Hartingdon presided. , During a discussion on migration it was frankly ppinted out

that as long as Britain restricted her purehases of Dominion produce, i$,$as ..ro u§e planning to send qut more people or raise more produce. ' Mr. Savage told the Australian lAssociated Press that nothing conorete emerged from the discusgions which were purely exploratory. fIn a letter to The Tim.es, General Evaugeline Booth states that a preliminary examination of the reports of jthe Salvatiqn Army migration investifjation throughoat the Empire reveajs K widespread desire on the part of the Ponihdons tO sea British immigi-atioj] riisumed. Au iinpyrtant proviso is that .the Dominions enust be reasonably as■ured of a market fgr their exportable produce in the TJnited Kingdom. The general social amenities, together with the benefits of unemployment iasur•nee and other soeial . gqrvices more than offset the fear of European war, she stated, There was a growing feelihg at Homq and overseas that it would be good business from an Empire •taiidpoint if the British Goverpment gave the lead and aiade it clear that tio weU-considered scheme would be field up owing to lack of money, * The Migration Develppment Confe.r* •lice of the - Royal Empire Society egrecd to eommunicate with the Dqjnlnlon Gpvernments, setting out the time and objeptives pf the qQnferenqe and puggesting mothoda of qo-opera-tion, ■ ; The Lord Mayor of London will open a eonferenee at the Guil&hall on CctQber li to popularise • migration and Empire settlement. ' . ,