Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 3)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

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URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-237672

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 3

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XII Seiten, Seiten 1102-1670

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part VIII. Imperial unity and imperial co-operation

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1534 IMPERIAL UNITY [PART VIII which would appropriate 60 per cent. of the natural increase of the population of the United Kingdom, as compared with 48 per cent. in 1910 and 50 per cent. in 1907. But for the saving in life represented by a lower death-rate and a much lower infant mortality, this emigration would be a very heavy drain on the United Kingdom. The increase of popula- tion in ten years in Scotland and Ireland was only 210,000, or less than the total emigration from Great Britain for one year. With a diminishing birth-rate the United King- dom could not safely spare more than 300,000 people a year, and if 80 per cent. of these went to different parts of the Empire the Conference would probably agree that this was as much as could reasonably be required. Since 1907 the work of the Emigration Office had more than doubled, and every effort was made to keep the machinery up to modern requirements. Over-organization would probably check the operations of many of the voluntary non-political and benevolent associations connected with the work. Informa- tion was disseminated through 1,000 public libraries and municipal buildings, in addition to many post offices; 650 Boards of Guardians sent all their emigrated children to the Dominions, and in twenty-one years, at a cost to the rates of £109,000, 9,300 poor-law children had been emigrated, and there was convincing evidence of the high quality of such children. In five years, at a cost of £127,000, 130 Distress Committees had sent 16,000 emigrants to different parts of the Empire. Since 1907 army reservists had been allowed to leave this country and to continue to draw reserve pay, and since that date 8,000 reservists had availed themselves of this permission, of whom only 329 were not under the British flag. Mr. Burns! concluded with the advice to the Dominions to trust to the Imperial Government in this matter. She would hold the scales fairly between the various Dominions, and he was glad on his part to recognize that during the last two or three years the Dominions had shown greater generosity in the treatment of emigrants from the United Kingdom. After this statement there was little 1 Cd. 5745, p. 202.

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