MORE EMIGRATION

Hokitika Guardian, 17 September 1932, Page 5

MORE EMIGRATION

A CRUSADE IN BRITAIN. DOMINIONS BEHIND LIMIT. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, September 16. The “Morning Post” is continuing its crusade in favour of stimulation of emigration from Britain. It says that .the fullest advantage of the, Ottawa Conference decisions would only be realisable by an expansion of the Dominions’ population. It says:—.“No statesman or economist will contest the assertion that neither Australia nor Canada would be over populated at say thirty millions each. Yet according to the progress during . the past century, it would take Canada .over .a century-and Australia over two centuries to teach those figures. New Zealand will take three or four centuries to obtain even ten millions of a population. “There is naturally a limit to the economic increase of population in proportion to tho area and' the natural resources. We have . sometimes overstepped that limit but the Dominions remain far behind it.: All of their equipment iff railways, telegraphs, etc., could more intensively be used by double or treble the population with comparatively litle extra outlay. Their factories could, therefore, raise their output if they were producing for larger home markets. It is therefore, m the common inteest that the Dominions and the Mother Country should promote nl flow of population from where it is excessive to where it is deficient.”