MIGRATION

Hokitika Guardian, 16 April 1931, Page 8

MIGRATION

A BRITISH SCHEME. FIVE YEARS PLAN. WELLINGTON. April 11. Ail ambitious plan to establish rural communities and even cities in New /'(•aland and other parts of the British 1 Empire has been promulgated in England as part of a live-year scheme for surmounting the pressing economic <lilficultios of the Old Country, ami has aroused some attention in this Dominion. The promoters of this live-year plan. I who claim influential support to the idea, propose to reduce t,ho unemployment dole every year by ten per e"nl. until it is exhausted, and apply the saving to emigration—not mere individual emigration, but the bud ol systematic colonisation by which N”" Zealand and the other successful colonies of the British Empire were originally peopled. That is to say, the planting of communities. “The Dominions cannot afford to receive ma'sses of people who may require support there just the same as they do here,” the plan states, “But i they have room which the United 1 Kingdom has not. Let the Govern- , meat buy land in the Dominions, using so far as may b> j- - 1 . 4 •i - : ,tions of high reputation, such as the i Hudson Bay Company, to do the work, and for the 1 rest setting up chartered companies.’’ i Tlio money for fin’s scheme; or part of it at* least, would lie fowl c ; “. l. alising the dole for five years and persuading those Dominions that could afford it. to match their capital i 1 for £. j ESTABLISHING COLONIES. Leaders of men. of course, won!' 1 be required to take the first 109.000 [ men to each Dominion. 1902 mi ht. ' well see the purchase of the land, (he selection of the leaders, and the enrolment of the pioneers, who would go ; ahead Mild prepare the ground tor Dm army of occupation which would tallow. | fn 1933 the '■KypedLinnary Forces 1 could he dispatched to those country's south of tile Line, and that to Canada i would follow in April. During tlnß vear the pioneer work would go on. the dole would he reduced by a Inrtber ten oor cent., and lurthor reciuitments would be arranged. I The real movement would he<dn in ' 1934. when the villages and young cities would have grown. The dob would go down another ten b’r <■"’K These Empire emigrants would still h(. dependent upon the State. and 1 would be allowed to remain so for two ' years after emigration. In the fimt | two years the migrants would he all I men with the exception of the nursing . service. USING THE DOLE .MONEYS, j In 1.935 and 1930 the process would 1 go oil up to the full limit ol those desiring to take advantage oi it. and I the proportion of women would rise I during that time. Th ( . dole, by surj cossive animal reductions ot ten per ! cent., and having been capitalised lor five gears, would be extinguished Ly ! 1930.’ j If would be easily possible, the I motors claim, to transport live mill ons in people in this way in five years. I and their prosperity would create ■> | vacuum both in England and overseas. Five years’ dole capitalised am' matched by equal loans raised in the Dominions would create new citm 1 -' I wherever St was intended to put i t»:cin. The result, the plan claims finally, j would he 'the ending <>l the dole, and I such a wave of prosperity in all the ; Dominions and the United Kingdom. as would make the I.9th century alrnid for its laurels.