EMIGRATION TO THE COLONIES.
VIEWS OP MR JOHN BURNS. COLONIES SHOULD BEAR COST OF TRANSPORT. LONDON, May 7. Dr. Richard Arthur, of Sydney, had an interview lasting an hour and a quarter, with Mr John Burns, President of the Local Government Board, in regard to emigration to the colonies. The Minister was very sympathetic, and expressed his readiness to receive a deputation to suggest methods whereby Britain could assist emigration to' Australia. Mr Burns considers that the colonies should hear the cost of transport, seeing that Britain loses the future economic valJe of the youth which she has reared to manhood.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19090510.2.19
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3185, 10 May 1909, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
101EMIGRATION TO THE COLONIES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3185, 10 May 1909, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in