§ Major GLYNasked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs what are the titles of the voluntary or semi-official emigration societies operating in Great Britain with which agreements under the Empire Settlement Act have been concluded; to which Dominion and how many persons of either sex under and over the ages of 14, 21, and 40, respectively, have gone overseas in 1930 and at what cost to the British taxpayer; and bow do these figures compare with 1924?
Mr. THOMASThe following is a list of the voluntary organisations operating in Great Britain with whom agreements under the Empire Settlement Act were in operation in 1930:
- Dr. Barnado's Homes.
- Boy Scouts Association.
- British Dominions Emigration Society.
- British Immigration and Colonisation Association.
- British Legion.
- Catholic Emigration Association.
- Catholic Emigration Society.
- Child Emigration Society.
- Chisledon Army Vocational Training Centre.
218 - Christ's Hospital.
- Church Army.
- Church of England Council of Empire Settlement.
- Church of England Waifs and Strays.
- Church of Scotland.
- Dr. Cossar's Farms (Craigielinn Farms).
- Dreadnought Fund of New South Wales.
- Mr. Fegan's Homes.
- Fellowship of British Empire Exhibition.
- Fellowship of the Maple Leaf.
- Glasgow Corporation.
- Hudson's Bay Company Overseas Settlement Limited.
- Liverpool Education Authority.
- Local Migration Committees:
- Bristol, Chesterfield, Derby, Hull, Kent, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham and Yorkshire, Oxford, Salford.
- 1820 Memorial Settlers' Association.
- Middlemore Emigration Homes.
- National Association of Boys' Clubs.
- National Children's Home and Orphan-age.
219 - Officers' Association.
- Orphan Homes of Scotland.
- Royal Naval Benevolent Trust.
- Salvation Army.
- Scottish Council for Women's Trades.
- Society for the Oversea Settlement of British Women.
- Southern Irish Migration Association.
Sailings under the Empire Settlement Act, 1930 and 1924 compared. — Men, 19 years and over. Women, 19 years and over Male Juveniles, 12–18 years. Female Juveniles, 12–18 years. Male Children under 12 Female Children under 12. Total. Australia 1930 252 807 326 165 237 188 1,975 1924 10,481 6,346 1,246 672 2,575 2,325 23,645 Canada 1930 8,700 7,702 4,993 1,231 2,096 2,904 26,626* 1924 2,022 3,173 1,922 567 996 929 9,609 New Zealand 1930 173 485 300 98 132 124 1,312 1924 2,094 2,364 878 496 986 932 7,750 Other parts of the Empire 1930 5 53 — 4 8 4 74 1924 — 20 1 5 8 6 40 1930 9,134 9,047 5,619 1,498 2,473 2,220 29,987 1924 14,597 11,903 4,047 1,740 4,565 4,192 41,044 * Includes 17,382 persons who paid their own passages at the special £10 rate for British migrants. The expenditure by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom on assisted migration, including land settlement and development schemes overseas and training and aftercare overseas, was £451,261 in 1924 and £563,062 in 1930. It will be appreciated that the latter figure includes a portion of expenditure in respect of the settlement and aftercare of persons who had migrated in previous years.