SETTLING EMPIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 July 1922, Page 5

SETTLING EMPIRE.

* BETTER DISTRIBUTION. t FILLING THE DOMINIONS. RELIEF TO BRITAIN, MANY IDLE PEOPLE. By Telefriph.—Pms Asa.— Received July 11, 5.5 p.m. London, July 10. The Empire Producer*’ Organisation tendered a luncheon to Col. L. M. C. S. Amery at the Hotel Victoria to mark their appreciation of hia work for Empire settlement, especially in connection, with the passage of the Empire Settlement Bill. < _ Mr. Ben Morgan, who presided, eulogising Colonel Amery, said he could see no hope of full employment in thia eounthe present rate of the population s increase, and therefore they must take in hand seriously the better distribution of the surplus population. Colonel Amery’s Act was the first definite step towards thia end and was a great achievement. Sir Joseph Cook (High Com mi as inn pyfor Australia ), supporting the toast, said Colonel Amery had recognised one or two things that were fundamental. One was the recognition that this country had no right to leave its ex-service to want whet) there was room overseas for them to live in plenty and comfort. Sir Joseph Cook believed there waa a real disposition on the part of the authorities here to distribute the surplus people within the Empire. He regarded Colonel Amery as the pioneer of a new movement. Sir James Allen (High Commissioner for New Zealand/ said Colonel Amery was a man to whom we owed much and we would owe more to him in the future.