BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 June 1926, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

{Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] WOMEN IMMIGRANTS. I JON DON, June 2:5. A suggestion,, that in view of the preponderance of men in New Zealand it is perhaps rather dangerous for the authorities to encourage t.h.r migration of domestics rather than educated women, was made hv a lady delegate to the .British Commonwealth League Conference on Empire Migration. After an address by Mr fsundl'ord in regard to the opportunities for women in New Zealand, wherein he pointed out such opportunities were primarily domestic. Mrs Corbett Aslihv (presiding; agreed with the delegates’ views, and suggested the university women .should by encouraged to emigrate.

WHITE AUSTRALIA. LONDON, June 23

Mr Eva it gave an outspoken inliniutiou of the sac-redness of White Australia Policy, and of the Australian Labour’s disregard of any decision inmical thereto when controverting Air Jowctt’s proposal at the Labour Migration Congress. He said tl'.it it was obvious the Congress viewpoint was European, while Australian Labourite’s policy embodied two cardinal, not European principles, namely White Australia, which whs ineontrovertibly opposed to the influx not only of assisted migrants but any inimigration, until the land monopoly was broken up and the unemployeds absorbed; and secondly, trades union consent must be obtained tor any scheme of immigration. Unlortunatcly an anti-Labour Government controlled Australian immigration, with the result that there was a greater i>cr-:-en-d/igc of unemployment, in t Australia than iu the majority of European countries.

Labour was bitterly opposed to immigration from' Southern Europe, especially Italian, and desired to see established safeguards against controlled migration. “If" wo open the door, as the United States and Canada did. and we subsequently desired to close it. there will be a pretext for war. Australia is not affiliated with your international bodies, therefore your resolutions do not bind us.