BRITISH MIGRANTS
WRONG TYPE SENT OUT A VIGOROUS PROTEST BY LORD SOMERS (United- Prou Awooiation-*r Electric Tolesrraph—Oopyrljriit) (Australian Praia ▲•aaolftUan) (Received 24 th Julv. 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, 23rJ July. The Church of England Council for Empire Settlement, was largely attended at Lambeth Palace under the presidency of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and produced unexpected results. After platitudinous speeches by many clerical dignitaries. Lord Somers suddenly and uninvitedly intervened with a vigorous protest against the existingstereotyped system of migration under which "Britain financially assisted penniless workers to transplant themselves in the. dominions. H e declared that it was a mistake to encourage the migration of the conventional penniless and workless type of niigrants~wlm were no loss to the motherland and no gain to the dominions. ]f Britain wished to populate th ( > dominions, why not migrate second sous and otner members of well-to-do families who were prepared to prepay their passages and finance enterprises. "We, want men who can go out with moans 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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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 24 July 1929, Page 5
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