IMMIGRATION.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13879, 2 November 1910, Page 9

IMMIGRATION.

MEN FOR AUSTRALIA. VIEWS OF THE SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COMMISSIONERS. United Press Association—By Elcctrio Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, November 1. Tho Lord Mayor entertained the Scottish Agricultural Commissioners at a banquet yesterday. Mr McGowen, tho Premier, said that the country Avanted immigration of the right sort to develop tho interior, and he hoped that they would successfully compete with Canada regarding British immigrants. Sir Carlaw Martin, responding, said that they had been struck by tr/j diversity Australia offered to the agriculturist. It Avas quite evident that in Australia tho forces of Nature worked for man with extreme generosity. They had also been struck by the fact that the farmer, while bearing a heavy portion of the burden of tho State, had to send his Avheat to tho world's markets, getting tho international price, but had to pay the Australian price, -which Avas from 40 to 60 per centum above tho European price, for agricultural machinery. He hoped that the result of the report would bo to send Scotsmen to Australia instead of to other countries that wero not British. The time had arrived when they should have an organisation at homo regulating emigration, so as not to allow the country to bo depleted of its best blood.