GENERAL SIR A. RUSSELL

Hokitika Guardian, 15 October 1923, Page 4

GENERAL SIR A. RUSSELL

, V 1 SIT TO UNITE]) KINODO.M. 1 | ] CHIUS'TC'JIL'HfIT. Oil. 13. ' General Sir Andrew Russell. who re- j presented New Zealand at t lie British Empire Service League Conference in London in July last, writing to Mr \Y. E. Lcndley, secretary of the ChristC'hiireh R.S.A., deals with several subjects of general interest. j ' Referring to migration matters, he j states that this is a very important question in the O! 1 Country at the present time. It was. in the writer's opinion. the only real solution of the tinemployment problem, but it was a pity that its operation must necessarily be slow, and it could not be relied on so j much as an immediate remedy as a preventive of unemployment in the t future. He referred to the opposition , oi the Labour Party at Home and in New Zealand To migration and said that the question should not, in any sense. Le it patty one. but should be a limiter lor tin l closest investigation at.d careful. deliberate organisation. •‘AVe could not get away from the fact," lie wrote, ‘that there ate <m one hand huge areas of undeveloped land and on the other hand distressing numbers m men j "hn want employment in earnest, and vsi . uv.iug to trade eonditioMs. cannot find it. This question is worth all the trouble you end I, or anyone rise can give it. .*1 visited the war graves in frame unit am glad to be able to report tint! they are beautiful memorials to the men who loll: that the graves are extremely well cared lor and lltat the tenteieries give you the impression of gardens. No one who has lost a friend or relation but can IVel that everything possible is being done in the matter of Ihe graves. Sir James Allen, who has just returned from Gallipoli, assures me that the graves and cemeteries on the Peninsula, are equally well cared for. I attended a conference got up by the League of Nations at Geneva to deal with the question of die employment of disabled soldiers. Representatives from nearly all the European countries, including Germany were there. It was cut ions to notice a distinct difference in the mentality of di e Gomiimmttls and the Anglo-Saxon representatives. The one idea on Ihe Comment is to do everything by regulation and by legal obligation, uher.cis the Anglo-Saxon preferred to trust to voluntary effort and co-operation ami to look on compulsion as ,i last had

"MMMBaawCBWBBB in n nirwnniin hitiiiin iiimin iii ll m nwa warn “I iook the opportunity of visiting Professor Spahlingcr,” wrote General Russell, ’and to go round his establishment to interview patient? and < xpatients who had been cured. In other word- to lind nut .’ill I could. [ uni satisfied, a~ far as a layman can be, of die probable cliiciency of his treatment wild console] that ii would le aetntlly shameful if so promising a method of prevention and euro were not given a fair cluiiiee of being proved for \v»nt of money. Fortunately. Sir James Allen is a keen as anyone on its fd:l. Dp. Collins’s report was most encot.;agiug and lie i- evidently a convert." The General then proceeds to dual with several matters relating to the Conference.