WHITE AUSTRALIA POLICY.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17401, 11 March 1922, Page 12

WHITE AUSTRALIA POLICY.

' NORTHEEN TEBBITOBh? ! OOBPTROVEBST.. A-y ' ; I J (By^Cahle— Pr«s Association—Copyright.) . .{Australian and N.Z. Association.) (Received March 10th, 5.5 p.m.) . ' LONDON, March 9. ; • Sir Joseph Cook, High Commissioner • 7 for Australia, to an intetview withthe ( Hon. H, N. Barwell, Premier ■ of i South Australia, in the "Financial - News/' • combats Mr Barwell!s state- " ments. firstly,. that ten years' ex--perience has provpd that whites can- . - not> work and' flourish in tropical Australia; and secondly, that sixty years' - attempts-to open up \he Northern Terv'ritory by .whites have resulted in tinder ;' - v 4OOO .settlers being placed there., i'.-k-gir. Joseph Cook points out that set- - i Element,has naturally developed in the non-tropical districts,. that' theQueens•land sugar industry would begreatly .* more productive .with white labour than :• with clack, and that the Northern Ter- •• titory is backward because railways are -not provided either by Somth Australia > or by the Commonwealth, for the reason : that neither money norjtimo has been, available to build them while the non- ■ ■ tropical parts qf Australia are deinanding development.