QUEENSLAND'S PROSPERITY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 153, 27 June 1908, Page 5

QUEENSLAND'S PROSPERITY.

IMMIGRANTS WANTED. THE MORE THE BETTER. : LONDON, June 26. The annual Queensland dinner took " place last evening, and was attended by I 130 persons, including Mr. W. P. Reeves (High Commissioner for New Zealand). [ Mr. W. Kidston, the Queensland Premier), in replying to the toast of Queensland, said that he was gratified at that State's display at the Franco-British Exhibition. He dilated upon the healthy expansion of all the industries of Queensland. "We have," he -went on to say, "no need to borrow money now. We are enjoying prosperity such as we have never known before, and will not borrow any more unless We can put the money to profitable use in developing Queensland. ''We are going to have a period of great industrial activity. New railways will open up mineral and timber country, and new areas for agriculturalsettlenient. The State wants a steady stream of ' white and the more who j • come the batter for us and the better for them." j The Exhibition at Shepherd's Bush ! was, Mr. Kidston continued, only the first '■ essay in the propaganda for making i Queensland known to the British Isles, j Queensland had paid a large price for j the establishment of the Commonwealth. ' Unification would be a misfortune for the development of Australia. There was undoubted need for a central Government, , but there was also need for strong, ' healthy State Governments. Lieutenant-Colonel Seely (Under-Sec- i retary for the Colonies), in proposing the j health of 6ir Horace Tozer ( AgentGeneral for Queensland, emphasised the i j idea of the Earl of Crewe ('Secretary of : j State for the Colonies) to keep the Colo- . I nial Office entirely apart from party ' I politics.