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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Overseas Settlement Board: Minutes of Meetings October 1937-May 1939 |
| Date | Oct 1937 - May 1939 |
| Document Type | Report |
| Reference | DO 114/90 |
| Library / Archive | The National Archives |
| Collection Name | Confidential Print Dominions |
| 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; Libya |
| Places | England; Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia, Australia; Saskatchewan, Manitoba, British Columbia, Canada; Victoria, Argentina; Zimbabwe; New Zealand; Kenya |
| Nationality | English; European; Italian |
| People | Croft, Sir Henry; Mitchell, H J; Gibson, George; Machtig, E G; Crutchley, E T; Plant, G F; Price, C R |
| Keywords | settlement, migration, societies, commonwealth, statistics, emigration scheme, government, industry, female emigration, women, Empire Settlement Act, legislation, expenditure, assisted emigration, population, employment, social life, public services, labour, farm school, trade, congress, Salvation Army, Church of England, Young Men's Christianity Association, charity, finance, Catholicism, Oversea Settlement Board |
| Language | English |
| Copyright | Crown Copyright documents © are reproduced by permission of The National Archives London, UK |
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