BRITISH MIGRATION.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 March 1922, Page 5

BRITISH MIGRATION.

THE JOINT SCHEME. DOMINIONS’ CO-OPERATION. UNANIMITY AND CONTINUITY NEEDED By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received. March 26, 5.5 p.m. London, March 24. The Australasian Press Association has interviewed various British GovI eminent authorities in reference to the' forthcoming Emigration Bill, providing for financial co-operation with the. Dominions under joint sell ernes of migration and land settlement. The interviewer found a general concurrence of opinion that the principal difficulty affecting Australia was the lack of unanimity amongst political parties regarding immigration, for whatever one party proposed the other epposed. This particularly applied to the State Parliaments, who controlled lands without which land settlement is impracticable. The Canadian Federal and Provincial Parliaments have favored immigration for the past twenty years. New Zealand was preponderatingly favorable in recent years, and Australia was a conspicuous exception. The first essential to Imperial co-op-eration in emigration' is continuity of policy. This is impossible unless all parties in the Australian Parliaments agree to co-operate with the Imperial Government and are able to guarantee continuity, because emigration is a'nonparty question. If the Australian and Federal Parliaments made immigration a non-party but national question, thereby enlisting the support of all parties, also ensuring continuity of policy independent of probable changes of Government, it would enable the Imperial authorities to formulate a permanent policy, both politically and financially.