BRITISH EMIGRATION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3696, 4 December 1912, Page 5

BRITISH EMIGRATION.

PEOPLE WHO SHOULD MANAGE IT

A'IEWS OF LONDON AGENTS

[INDEPENDENT PRESS CABLE) LONDON, Nov. 23. Giving evidence to-day before the Imperial Trade Commission, Mr. Stanton, president of the Emigration Agents’ Association, urged that emigration should be entirely divorced from religious and philanthropic societies, and 1 confined to people who carry out the work on business lines. The" steamship companies paid the agents 6s on each emigrant secured for Canada, and 12s for everyone whom they booked for Australia, while the dominions added a bonus of £l. Mr. Courtney, an ex-president of the association, advocated the licensing of emigration agents, of whom there were altogether 500. He suggested that tliev should pay a fee of £lO.

Colon eli Pilkington, representing the Soldiers’ Land Settlement Association, stated that 22,000 soldiers in sound health retired from the army every year. The great majority of these men had lived in the tropics, and his association hoped to establish training farms in Britain, and also in the oversea dominions,- for the purpose of assisting in the development of tropical areas.