AUSTRALIA DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 23, 28 January 1922, Page 5

AUSTRALIA DAY.

DEAN ON COMMONWEALTH. ' HEARD TAUa ABOUT SYDNEY LONDON, January 27. An Australia Day anniversary service was held at St. Dunslan's in the East. The church was brftagged and crowded with Anglo-Austraiiane, including Sir Joseph Cook. The service opened with i the National Anthem. i Dean Inge, in an address, traversed , ! the early history and development of : j Auetralin, which culminated in her share j iiu the war. He stressed the bravery of ; • Australia's soldiers, whom German offi- I cors considered their most formidable I opponents and for whom Krench generals had nothing but the highest admiration. Dean Inge regretted that the average Englishman knew very little of Aua- I tralia. but politicians had a deep interest in the Commonwealth. They looked to Australia for the newest experiments I in democratic government. The speaker f alluded to the menace from other races . who were covetously eyeing the great ■ empty island, and also the marked ten ? deney of Australians to congregate in the r chief cities instead of developing the back i country. Knglislimwi and Australians, he oon- - tinned, should know each other better. It wa« possible that the Australian character would diverge more widely from the KngHsh, but it was difficult to predict in what direction that divergence - would take. After referring to the effects '• of climate upon peoples Dean Inge said '" he had heard that Sydney people took ,r life more easily and engaged lee* in the ;1 J pursuit, of wealth than people in other c I cities. There was a danger in being too * I comfortable. He hoped that Australia c J would produce a truly national school of I 1 ; Bit and uiueie and become one of the ° I great nations of the world. The "Morning Post," in a laudatory leader on Australia's birthday, cona I eludes: "What Australia requires is a ti i echeme of selected immigration under ;" I which a man and his family arc taken directly to a job and given a fair chance tv to make a good living. Britain could ° i well spare several millions of flr«t-nla»s 'j j pioneers to open up land and make their :m , homes in Australia. An intelligent syg- & tern of immigration -would he an invaluable inventment for Australia. It would increase her production and enable her to realise hi>r ideal of a White Australia. j d (A. and X.Z. Cable.)