IMMIGRATION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10059, 2 June 1910, Page 5

IMMIGRATION.

SUGGESTED SUBSIDIARY CONFERENCE. Received June ], 9.30 a.m. LONDON, June 1. The Emigration Conference has asked the Government to hold a subsidiary conference to formulate proposals for submission to the Imperial Conference of 1911. It has also urged the Board of Trade to grant loans under the Labor Exchanges Act to workpeople going i.o the colonies .o get work, Lord Brassey urged the expediency of the Government making a beginning by granting £IO,OOO, to be administered under Government supervision ■ by the existing emigration storieties.

WANT OF POPULATION

.Received June 1, 10.25 p.m. LONDON, Juiiej^l. At the Emigration Conference, Mr L. S. Amerv, of The Times staff, declared that we were holding territories larue enough for half a dozen empire?, without'popultaion to defend them. What could Australia's four millions of population do against a hundred millions developing in the East, or Canada's seven millions do against ninety millions of the United States? Military organisation was only detail. The real thing was man power. A NEW SCHEME. Received June 1, 10.25 p.m. LONDON, June 1. Messrs Allan Brothers, shipowners, have submitted a scheme for sending to Canada two thousand pioneers, their wives, and four thousand children, in'l9lo, and five thousand men and wives?, and ten thousand children, in subsequent years. Each to be provided with credit for the equipment of a homestead. The whole cost, including fidelity bond, will be £l5O per family, which will t?e advanced at 7 per cent., with interest, repayable in se«en years. The scheme could be administered upon a maximum credit of £2,250,000, which would eventually fall below a million.