FOR AUSTRALIA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1936, Page 13

FOR AUSTRALIA.

NORDICS AS SETTLERS? QUEENSLAND PREMIER'S VIEWS. LONDON, May 28. The Premier of Queensland (Mr. Forgan Smith), in an article published in the "Empire Review," contends that if England is unable to provide self-supporting migrants, then Scandinavian nations should be given the opportunity. Settlers from European nations, notably the Scandinavians and other Nordics, have all proved good colonists in the past, lie writes. Australians have sufficient burdens in meeting the cost of developing the country withont having to finance migration schemes. Migrants must be self-supporting, or the cost of maintaining them until they become wealth-producers must be borne by the country whose population pressure was relieved by their departure. Queensland, adds Mr. Forgan Smith, was determined not to have the labour market further congested by untrained dependent workers, but there is plenty of room for those who settle at their own expense.

The editor of the "Empire Review" (Sir Clement Kinloch Cooke) comments that Mr. Forgan Smith is wrong in supposing that there is any movement in England for dumping its surplus labour in the Dominions.