MORE FARMERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 May 1922, Page 5

MORE FARMERS.

PEOPLING THE DOMINIONS. MIGRATION FROM BRITAIN. SCHEME BEGINS SOON. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received May 30, 5.5 p.m. London, May 29. The House of Lords read the Empire Settlement Bill a second time. Lord Crawford emphasised, that it would not mean emigration, but migration, within the Empire, and tend to reduce undesirable migrants. Expounding the Empire Settlement Bill at a meeting to-night, Mr. L. C. Amery expressed his obligation to the Parliamentary parties for their generous and sympathetic reception of the Bill, which was now only awaiting the concurrence of the House of Lords. Referring to the future administration of the Bill, he said he was not in favor of free passages; he preferred advances which migrants would repay, thus encouraging self-reliance. He hoped to be able to co-operate with the Dominions in promoting land settlement. The peopling of the land being the first esesntial in all migration schemes, it would be no good sending industrial workers to swell the unemployed, already overswollen in Sydney and Melbourne. Australia and New Zealand must have more farmers and not industrialists. He therefore attached importance to land settlement schemes like the West Australian Premier’s proposals, which would open up new areas. He welcomed schemes to encourage individual settlement by providing separate holdings. He urged the preliminary agricultural training of young migrants before leaving Britain, and advocated boy and girl migration at formative ages, when they were most capable of becoming good settlers overseas. He would gladly foster boy and girl emigration as far as the Bill per-mitted.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. SOUTH-WEST AFRICA. SKIRMISH WITH NATIVES. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. 1 Capetown, May 28. A message from the administrator of Windhoek, South-West Protectorate, states that while the forces were successfully occupying the strategical positions near Kalkfontein necessary for cooperation with the air forces, the rebel Bondelswartz natives were encountered in strong numbers and well armed. The enemy opened fire and, after a sharp skirmish, four were killed and nine taken prisoner. The Government forces lost one killed. It is believed the rebels are making towards the Orange River. CAUSE OF TROUBLE. Capetown, May 2ft. Tn the Asembly General Smuts stated that the trouble in the South-west Protectorate originated through the Bondelzwart tribesmen refusing to extradite certain criminals among them. He did not think the matter was very serious, hut it might become so if a great concentration of rebels occurred.