DEVELOPING THE EMPIRE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 306, 4 February 1910, Page 5

DEVELOPING THE EMPIRE

NEW SCHEME OF EMIGRATION. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright London, February 2. Mr. C. Reginald Knack, the well-known traveller, in a paper read at the Royal Society of Arts, remarked that trade and commerce wore insufficient means of livelihood for the British, nor alone an adequate basis for Imperial unity. He recommended every municipality and urban district in the United Kingdom to acquire an area of free land in the overseas' dominions, to hold in perpetuity as a heritage for its people, developing it for their needs, and creating new sources of industry and revenue. He argued that valuable material, both in labor and land, were now wasting. An association of London City men should lead the way, and secure a large area of colonial land, raise a working capital, and fomi a new and valuable permanent property for the benefit of London. Mr. Killier (sic), M.P., who presided, said the problem deserved the most careful consideration, in view of the great undeveloped resources of the oversea dominions and the distress and poverty in the Motherland's chief centres. 2lr. Taverper said it would be a \YJSC policy for the Motherland and the dominions to collaborate in peopling the various parts. He favored the establishment of an Imperial Council and representation of the colonies in the House of Lords. Other speakers doubted whether the colonies would earmark land, but agreed that the time was ripe for an Imperial Conference on migration within the Empire.