A BIG TASK.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18919, 7 February 1927, Page 9

A BIG TASK.

AUSTRALIA'S DEVELOPMENT. NEW SETTLEMENT SCHEME. (BT CARLE-FSESS ASSOCIATION—COrTRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AKD N.E. CAB LB ASSOCIATION.) (Received February oth, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, February 5. General speculation is being indfulged in as to who the "Four best financial business brains" may be that are selected, according to Mr Stanley Brace's speech, cabled from Sydney, to go to Australia to study, and confer on problems concerned with increasing Australia's power to absorb immigration. In this connexion, the names of Lords Weir and Lovat, and Mr Hilton Young, are mentioned. The "Morning Post" says: "Four men must he found who are accustomed to spending millions, and are able to visualise vast industries in a, wilderness, and who are also familiar with the economics of railroad building. When selected, they will go to Australia to act as an advisory, not an executive, body. Their work will bo to make Australia receive and absorb a gigantic population. They will collaborate with tho existing 'Big Four' in Australia, namely tho Migration Commission, Messrs Gepp, Naylor, Fleming, and Gunn. Together, these bodies will form Australia's 'Great Eight.' Their deliberations will mark a new era. It will be the tatk of the 'Great Eight* to take Australia in hand and lay it out to the best advantage. It is town-planning on a vast scale. Nothing like it was ever attempted before. Obviously men of this calibre cannot be found in Whitehall. They must be drawn from the leaders of industry." The "Morning Post" save editorially, that if, as proposed, 450,000 British men and Women are to be assisted to settle in Australia during the next ten veare, some clear plan will be essential.

DETAILS NOT KNOWN

(AUSTRALIA* ABD N.B. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received February Gth, 11.5 p.m.) LONDON, February 6. Official quarters have no knowledge of the detaixu of Mr Bruce'a migration delegation, which they say ho merely mentioned here as an idea, with the intention of working out the details later.