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THE main criticism contained in the article in NATURE of May 14 was that the report of the Overseas Settlement Committee did not deal with those very points on which members of Parliament should be informed. The report should have contained the information given in Mr. Turner's interesting letter, that the Dominions cannot at present absorb all those of our people willing to migrate, and that New Zealand absorbs, per head of population and pro rata for her area, more migrants than any other Dominion. Possibly there would be some difficulty in attempting to deal with certain of the factors enumerated in these columns which influence overseas settlement, but most of them could be dealt with—in particular, the inter-relations between overseas settlement and trade with the Dominions, and the programme of development and other development projects put forward by the Dominions which must at some time have been discussed by the Committee. We cannot altogether agree with Mr. Turnor that it is inexpedient to deal with the causes operating against the migration of our peoples to South Africa. They are not sufficiently well known to members of Parliament. Mr. Turnor suggests that migrants of other nations do not receive financial assistance. Possibly foreign Governments do not give direct assistance, but it is a fact that one of. the principal objects of the Deutsche-Kolonialgesellschaft is to afford financial support to German emigrants. With Mr. Turner's concluding sentences we are in entire agreement. That is why regret was expressed that the report did not deal adequately with problems which face the Committee.
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THE WRITER OF THE ARTICLE [Letters to Editor]. Nature 119, 891 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119891a0
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