POPULATING DOMINIONS.

Shannon News, 29 March 1923, Page 4

POPULATING DOMINIONS.

/StJrEST i WAY. OF -ASSISTING’ > TRADE- . i) COUNTRY’S BEST CUSTOMERS, * (Received Wednesday, 1 10.20 p.‘xn.) March <-281 ' In the House of' Commons,-in the ■<. course of a 'debate on the Consolidated Fund Bill, Colonel-Alexander pointed " out that between - 1914'and ! 1920, fthe total British emigration^fto v th.e' Btanin# < ions did not exceed .340,000,, as com- -y. spared with ’tWo milliohs'Tor a- similar ' period in normal times. !-The -Empire 4 needed a large scale settlement policy ?•’. which would largely solve BritaintS.un*. employment problem. 1 The 1 Dominions’ present population l was :baJrely sihiteteh !< millions, yet both., in. totals and* .Lpern Capita - they bought more from Britain : than the combined’population "of two hundred millions in Europe. Mr Page Croft said he believed'uori-: 1 ': mal pre.war emigration would -.solve. the Britishi unemployment'• problem, within five years, but thferC-was no sign - - of such emigraHon. *c eventuating-WdEor - years. Viscount Sandon said it would, pay the : Treasury to support '-emigration‘'in’ order to establish ■a’weHrfto-do'.papulai.f:?;! tion in the Dominions .and-provide'an-increased market for British manufacturers. . Mr Brotherton vernment whs trying,toinduce,.men 4® ■ flee from the country they loved. It had not been proved ; th»t was - too small to- 1 support ?her: population.! -: ; Sir Alfred: Mond appealed -to -mem* > bers to regard the Empire, aa one great country. The development of the Bri- - - - tish Dominionsxh'nngr.togethef' Sir Newton- Moorav said Labour.-in • Australia favoured migration,. Mr Neil 'MacLeah -contended^thht emigration- schemes violated our wartime pledges.-I-.—lf we abolished»'tfce private ownership-of .land, in- Britain..

emigration would be\ unnecessary."' Lieut.-Coldnet.A. BUcKleyy in’ ing, said, the; '/Overseas "Departments - : * - policy 'Was to afford- facilities -to niL. , grants -to assist in'deveroping ’the Dominions)' where was.* scope-■ for British muscle; r,uspiralions.> and ideas;*- - Britain's export a trade, ...must, be de- . - •veloped to pre-war dimensions, and the development of inter-Empire trade was the best .available.il>meansr.' -If the -i«: schemes now/ being -considered,-were approved, it was hoped to emigrate . 75,000 people Within’a : -year. ‘‘The » Goyennment'si -/policyiiwas 'ta arrange . . schemes with: the Dominions: who were < co-operating most cordially, and secondly to select the right type - o± emi--grant. . / The! Government, had« hd* in- : ’ tehtion of droppingf the; Empire Settle- > .> iheint Act, ‘which was . considered a. matter’of - high policy.

-. TOUR OF INSPECTION. (Received - - " LONDON, Marches. In the House "Of Buckley said "the commission, dncludt ing Labour Commoners, which was now sitting, "was going on an Empire voyage to investigate conditions for receiving emigrants of fill classy*