THE EMIGRATION CONFERENCE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 45, 2 June 1910, Page 5

THE EMIGRATION CONFERENCE

VARIOUS RECOMMENDATIONS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright London, May 31. The Emigration Conference has asked the Government to hold a subsidiary conference to formulate proposals for ] submission to the Imperial Conference i next year. It also urged the Board of ( Trade to grant loans under the Labor 1 Exchanges Act to workpeople going to i the colonies to procure work. I Lord Brassey urged the expediency of ] the Government making a beginning by : granting £IO,OOO to be administered under Government Supervision by existi ing emigration societies. j I THE EMPIRE'S WEAKNESS. MEN, NOT MILITARISM, WANTED. Received June 1, 10.25 p.m. London, June 1. At the Emigration Conference, Mr. S. Goldman, a member of the House of Commons, favored a central emigration bureau composed of representatives of Britain and each emigrant-receiving colony 5 the 'bureau to be connected with local committees. Mr. L. S. Amerv, of the Times' staff, | declared that we were holding territories I enough for half-a-dozen empires without ' the population to defend them. What, lie asked, could' Australia's four millions of population do against a hundred million developing East, or Canada's seven millions against the ninety millions of ] the United States ? Military organisa- ] tion was a detail. The real thing was man-power.

A NOVEL SCHEME. London, June 1. Messrs. Allari Bros, submitted a scheme for sending to Canada two thousand pioneers, their wives, and four thousand children, in 1910, and five thousand men and their wives with ten thousand children in subsequent years, each to be provided with credit for equipment of a homestead. The whole cost, including a fidelity bond, would be £l5O per family, which would be advanced at 7 per cent, repayable in seven years. The scheme could be administered upon a maximum credit of £2,250,000, which eventually would fall below a million. The scheme would provide for twenty thousand people, who would pay interest at 3 per cent., and furnish a reserve of £30,000 per annum, leaving £IOO,OOO for administration in Britain. Colonel Murray, of the labor exchanges central offices, stated that the Board of Trade was considering the relation of labor exchanges to emigration benevolently, and was also considering Allan Bros'.' scheme. It resembled the old Crofters' cultivation scheme, which was an undoubted success.