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LORD SOMER’S VIEWS. .United Press Association—By Electric I eiegraph—Copyright;. (Received this day at 11 a.m.) LONDON, July 23. The Church of England Council of Empire Settlement, promoted by A. 1 West, of St. Dunstan’s, largely attended at Lambeth Palace under the" presidency of the Archbishop of Canterbury, produced unexpected results.' After platitudinous speeches by many clerical dignitaries, Lord Somers suddenly and uninvitedly intervened with a vigorous protest against the existing slerotyped system of migration under which Britain financially assisted penniless workers to transplant themselves in the Dominions. He declared it was a mistake to encourage immigration of the conventional penniless workless type of migrants who were no loss to the Motherland and no gain to the Dominions. If Britain wished to populate the Dominions, why not migrate second sons and other members of well-to-do families, who are prepared to repay the passages. and finance enterprises. “We want men who can go out with means of their own, because they want to develop the Empire not simply because they want to earn a living,” he concluded.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1929, Page 5
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