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Title Overseas Settlement Board: Minutes of Meetings March 1936-July 1937
Date Mar 1936 - Jul 1938
Document Type Report
Reference DO 114/89
Library / Archive The National Archives
Collection Name Confidential Print Dominions
Description The preface sets out all members of the Overseas Settlement Board during the great part of the period February 1936 to July 1937.
Series Description This series contains confidential print from, and relating to the dominions.
Biographical Note / History The Overseas Settlement Board was composed of five unofficial members appointed by the secretary of state, to represent respectively organised labour, business interests, social services, women's interests and migration organisations; and three officials from the Treasury and the Dominions Office. It was chaired by the Parliamentary Under Secretary for Dominions Affairs. The board was purely advisory in function (unlike its predecessor Overseas Settlement Committee), as the reduced number of emigrants meant that there was no justification for an extensive government service to migrants, and it did not take on the functions of interviewing candidates, and publishing information and advice that the earlier committee had exercised. Its activities were suspended at the outbreak of the Second World War, which it did not survive.
Theme(s) Politics, Legislation and Governance; Religion, Ethnic Identity and Community Relations
Country (from) Great Britain
Country (to) Australia; Canada; South Africa
Places England; Queensland, New South Wales, Western Australia, Australia; Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Canada; Victoria, Argentina; Zimbabwe; New Zealand
Nationality English; European
People Crutchley, Colonel E T; Thompson, Oscar; Turner, Christopher; Smith, W Forgan; Lumley, L R; Stevens, B S B; Floud, Francis; Galway, Henry
Keywords settlement, migration, societies, commonwealth, shipping, statistics, land, farm school, emigration scheme, government, industry, female emigration, Empire Settlement Scheme, charity, Barnardos, Young Women Christianity Association, Young Men's Christianity Association, family, factory, sugar, Empire Settlement Act, legislation, expenditure, assisted emigration, population, employment, social life, public services, repatriation, women, Oversea Settlement Board
Language English
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