MIGRATION POLICY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 July 1938, Page 4

MIGRATION POLICY

CAMPAIGN OF MEETINGS ' PLANNED THROUGHOUT BOTH ISLANDS (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. During the next few months an intensive campaign is being arranged to urge the public of the Dominion to insist upon a resumption at an early date of migration from Great Britain. Public meetings are being convened by the Rotary clubs in 20 towns, and the Dominion Settlement Association has undertaken to supply speakers. The first series of meetings will begin next Monday at Oamaru, and continue during the same week at Timaru, Ashburton and Christchurch. The chairman of the Dominion Settlement Association, Mr A. Leigh Hunt, is to speak at the meetings, and it is expected that there will be a large and representative gathering in each town. Arrangements are being completed for public meetings in other towns throughout both the North and South Islands. Ten young men holding responsible positions in Wellington have offered to take the platform and assist the movement for planned migration. The association advocates the migration of men and money under an organised, planned and financed scheme whereby everybody in New Zealand will benefit and no one will suffer.

The association claims that ample information is available to prove that Britain his migrants of the right type and age; and that apart from subsidies from the British Government, British investors are willing and anxious to supply the capital for fully developing the latent resources of the Dominion,