TO COMMONWEALTH

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12623, 7 December 1926, Page 4

TO COMMONWEALTH

PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION MEMBER IN CITY. A member of the British Parliamentary Delegation to Canada and Australia, Mr James Stewart, Labour member for a division of Glasgow, arrived in Wellington yesterday. When interviewed, Mr Stewart expressed the opinion that the delegation’s trip had proved well worth while. There had been 18 members, 10 Conservatives, 7 Labour men, and I Liberal. They had left England on August 7th, and had gone via Quebec to Vancouver, stopping over at numerous places on the way. They journeyed to Australia by tho All-Red Route, and the rest of his party had left the Commonwealth a fortnight ago by the Otranto, sailing via Suez, and would he home again on December 18th. While in Australia thev had had conferences with the Parliaments of all six States, and had discussed with them a number of principal problems and, above all, the matters of trade and of immigration. They were now satisfied that they understood those problems better, and their appreciation of the local point of view in regard to immigration would be of great assistance when, -they sought a solution of their difficulties. They had been most interested in the work of group settlement done in (Vest Australia, and considered it much the best system of handling immigration that they had seen in Australia. Men had gone off the land, it was true, but men went off the land everywhere; Some of them were unfitted to go on it, and the human element must tell.