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r THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1948 THE DAILY TI MES-GAZETTE a PAGE SEVENTEEN 150,000 Britons Leave Homeland In Growing Tide By H. L. JGNES Canadian Press Staff Writer London, Dec. 16 -- (CP)--In a swelling migration stream now ap- proaching 150,000 a year, Britons are leaving their "austerity island" to seek new fiomes and opportuni- ties in younger lands, Most of them are bound for Commonwealth countries like Can- ada, A@stralia and South Africa. Most have wanted to go for a long time and only now are getting the chance with improving transport facilities. , Thousands are taking ad- vantage of assisted passages offer- ed by countries anxious for certain types of skilled British workers. Britain's Labor government is watching this growing exodus with mixed feelings. It is taking no steps to impede the flow, but is keeping in mind the possible effect on Britain's present all-out produc- tion effort where every skilled hand is needed. In some cases the very workers other countries are trying to at- tract are the same ones Britain is most anxious to keep. A labor department spokesman said no bar- riers were put in the way of any Briton trying to emigrate. But , should he be a key man who could not immediately be replaced, then the case probably would be "put to him as an individual." Up to the end of September this year almost 120,000 persons emi- grated during the year compared with about 125,000 for the whole of 1947. This included about 100,000 pound for Commonwealth countries, of which 30,000 went to Canada. Several thousand others also went to Canada on assisted air passages. To counteract this out-flow, 747700 displaced persons. from Europe had entered Britain between April, 1947, and the end of last October. They were picked be- cause they volunteered to work in Britain's undermanned industries, like the coal mines and textiles. If they had ne skill, they were taught here. In addition ordinary immigration into Britain to the end of Septem- ber totalled 56,000 but Board of Trade officials said they had no way of knowing how many of these people planned to stay. The queues of those seeking to emigrate are still long. An estimat- ed 50,000 are waiting to go to South Africa and some 30,000 to New Zealand. Australia House has a waiting list of "several thousand" : and hopes to move 46,000 next year. But the queues at Canada House are not as long as they were. Main reason is the Labor government's action in Syjune from £5,000 ($20,- 000) to £1,000 the amount emigrants are allowed to take to countries outside the sterling area. This will save Britain dollars but means emigrants to dollar countries may not be able to take their entire assets with them. . Every now and then a controversy breaks out in the letter section of the British Press about the advis- ability of leaving Britain in her hour of need. There are arguments for both sides, but the "Nos" got added support from a fact-finding agency during the year. Political and Economic Planning, an independent fact-finding organ- ization probing Britain's popula- tion structure, said its middle-aged groups were being drained through migration because mainly the young and. vigorous were leaving. This could only be halted if the Dominions were to accept a cross-section of age groups. WHEAT DELEGATION FLY TO U. K. Montreal--A group of officials from the Department of Trade and Commerce and the Department of Agriculture, headed by the Hon. J. G. Gardiner, Minister of Agricul ture, left Montreal Airport recently aboard a Trans-Canada Air Lines "North Star" for London, England, to discuss the 1940 wheat price. . Under the 1946 United Kingdom and Canada Wheat Agreement, 140 million bushels of Canada wheat are due for export to the U. K. dur- ing 1949. The 1948 price was $2.00 per bushel. The Minister did not express any opinions on the 1949 price. Among the party aboard the North Star, were Sir Andrew Jones, head of the British Food Mission to Canada, and Robert McCubbin, Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Agriculture. SANTA MEETS CN. TRAINS Montreal -- Hundreds of eager youngsters are getting the surprise | of their lives these days as they | step ¢from trains in Canadian Na- tional Railways Central Station to find Santa Claus on hand to rgeet them. With his pockets filled with Winter Uniform [Mineral Wealth This is the new Boy Scout winter | uniform which is now being dis- | tributed, or made available to scouts across Canada and is meeting with | an enthusiastic response. The uni- | form, specially designed to with-| stand - Canadian winter conditions, | features a ski~type cap (with ear| protectors), a smart zippered pocket | with detachable fur-trimmed Hood, and pullover slacks which can be worn over the regular scout uni- | form. In addition there are high- | cut leather boots for scouts living | in sections of Canada where such | boots are suitable. | --Central Press Canadian. | | | treats, old Saint Nick is a busy man | as kiddies surround and besiege | him with earnest pleas for electric trains and talking dolls. Santa plans to meet the trains from now | until Christmas, Cd "Here's how to avoid the rush of Long Distance Christmas Calls" To be sure of reaching faraway friends with a minimum of delay -- Call BEFORE Christmas Eve or AFTER Christmas Day Development Of Hardly Started Montreal, Dec. 15--As a mineral- bearing country, Canada is hardly 8! in the initial stage of development, M. W. Maxwell, chief of develop- ment, Canadian National Railways, last night told the Phi Epsilon Alpha Society of McGill University, during a talk on the physical back- ground of Canada's economy. "The rather tiresome cliche that | te days to come, as in the past, you Canada's mineral areas have not, yet been scratched is an under- statement," Mr. Maxwell said, add- ing: "The fact is that much of her mineral-bearing country hasn't even been walked over, let alone scratched." The speaker told the McGill En- gineering Society that Canada's reat natural wealth in mining, agriculture and fishing, hinged to a large extent on such factors as geography, climate and .transporta- tion. In the latter respect, Mr. Maxwell said: "I think it will be the case in will find the Canadian railways still leading the way in development of the country by furnishing the low- est cost rail transportation offered any country in the world. As an ex- ample, this week, almost unnoticed by the general public, the Canadian National Railways is opening a newly-completed branch line ex- tending 50 miles north in the Bell River Valley into the hinterland of Northern Quebec." He said this new line was built primarily to open up a new: section of the clay belt for agricultural set- tlement and to tap the immense forest wealth of the valley. And he added: "The farm lard it will make immediately available for settlement will accommodate a population of 15,000 people. Just to indicate to you how & railway creates wealth, the cost of this line was $3,200,000 and the estimate of the capital wealth brought into realization bysthis ex- tension is in the order of $40,000,- 000." JOBS GO BEGGING Johannesburg -- (CP) -- South Africa is in the grip of a vast lab- or shortage that is holding up es- sential industrial development and overburdening skelcton staffs in in- dustrial concerns. A labor official said there are hundreds of positions open but no manpower. BRITISH LIVESTOCK According to an estimate of the British Ministry of Agriculture, on September 4, the 1948 pig pcpula- tion in England and Wales number- ed 2.09 million, compared with 1.31 million at the same date in 1947. Poultry numbers increased during the same pericd from 38.11 million to 44.42 million. This represents an increase of abeut 60 per cent in numbers of pigs and 17 per cent in poultry. The sheep. numbers in- creased by about 5 per cent to 1022 million head and cattle by 2 per cent to 73.77 million, Horses are the only group of livestock which de- clined in numbers during the twelve menths ended September 4, 1948, as at that time 372 thousand horses were Leing used for agricultural purposes, about 11 per cent less than a year before. TTT Im, DANGEROUS DRIVING Stratford, .Dec. 16--(CP) -- Arno Mansz of Gowanstown, Ont., whose wife, Clara, was killed in a highway accident Nov. 14, was convicted Wednesday of dangerous driving and fined $100. 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