27 JUNE 1931, Page 2

Migration from the British Isles Any who were hitherto- disposed

to put any hopes in emigration or, as it must now be called, overseas settle. ment, for the solution of our domestic problems, should be finally disillusioned by the report of the Overseas Settle- ment Committee for January, 1930, to March, 1931. Owing to the difficulties of other countries in accepting immigrants, the " outward balance " during 1930 was reduced by two-thirds as compared with the low figures of the previous year. Migration to other parts of the Empire has been reduced, as to the outward balance, from about 63,000 to under 10,000. Still more recently, to quote Mr. Thomas's statement in the House on Tuesday, " there have been more people arriving in this country from the Dominions than the number of emigrants."

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