NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 November 1928, Page 6

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

IMMIGRATION AND THE DOMINIONS.

“ The texts of the Dominion regulations really speak for themselves,” asserts the London “ Daily Chronicle.” “ The latest Canadian forms are the worst; but it is impossible not to see that the Australian also reflect the influence of men and parties who do not want immigrants. One of the evil results of the system is that foreign immigrants slip through the meshes, which keep British out. Last year Canada and Australia took 104,000 non-British immigrants between them ; while there is evidence that the number of Britons wishing to settle there vastly exceeds the numbers accepted for settlement.”

DISC’OURAGED lAIAIIGRANTS

“ We see as a nation,” observes the “ A’nrkshire Post,” “ the urgent necessity to persuade and help the dispossessed workers and their .families to migrate, and we have had the avowed intention of all the Empire Governments to provide both persuasion and assistance, and yet we find a series of practical obstacles in the way of the intending migrant. Intending migrants to Canada, for example, are called upon to answer no fewer than 196 questions, many of which are irrelevant. Out of a party of 360 young men of Durham, all of good physique and in the right, decade of life, who proffered themselves recently as settlers for Australia, only 12 were actually selected.”

INEVITABLE CHANGES IN INDUSTRY.

“There is a critical stage ahead,” states the “Yorkshire Observer,” “Sooner or later the lack of representative power which is common to both sides will have to give place to something more definite. it matters little what the terms in use may be; the facts of industry will not he changed. W rationalisation makes those rage who purr when they hear the word ‘ nationalisation,’ it does not alter the fact, as Mr dynes said, that greater efficiency must moan the closing of inefficient works and the erection of new works. These changes are inevitable, and if they can lie brought about in an atmosphere of co-operation and good-will the better will it he for all directly concerned, and for the nation as a whole.”

TWO CHURCHES ROBBED

It was recently discovered that two Mitcham churches were robbed during a Sunday night—St Mark’s Church and the Wesleyan Church. At the Wesleyan Church, where the minister is the Rev. A. Denman Martin, the amateur conjurer and member of the Magic Circle, the thieves made a meal of bananas and apples and grapes used to decorate the church for the harvest festival. Returning from, his annual holiday, the Rev. W. K. Roberts, the Rugby referee and vicar of St. Mark’s found that a silver communion service, his goldrimmed spectacles and 10s, which had been in the children’s missionary box, had been stolen,