BRITISH PARLIAMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 18 March 1926, Page 3

BRITISH PARLIAMENT

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] BRITISH POUnCS. LONDON*, March 17. In the Commons, lion Amery replying to Mr Booth by said lie hoped to be able to announce a proposed grant 'for Umpire marketing at an early date; also the amount which would bo available in the next financial year. The Dominions had been already informed of the decision for tin' present reduction from a million to half a million.

Hon Amery presented in Parliament the report of the iiiter-Departmoiital Committee appointed to consider tho effect of schemes of social in sura no:? cm migration The Committee says we have fully discussed the possible methods for 'Coiijtiteraeling the adverse ■effect of unemployment insurance and poor law relief, which have appreciably discouraged migration at the precise ages when, other things being equal, the opportunities of life overseas should prove very attractive. We believe when the openings in the Dominions lire made more attractive as they should he with improved trade, that if holder and more comprehensive schemes for development- and settlement arc undertaken and restrictions on assisted migration, especially on families and women are modified, social insurance will have comparatively little effect in the way of discouraging migration.