WHITE IMMIGRATION.
• : : rr ITALIANS OFFERING. or TEI.EOttAI'II—I'BESS ASSOCIATION —COPT HIGH?, \ Ronio, January 13.. Signor Zuini, Italian Consul at Perth, has loft Romo. He will submit to tho AgentGeneral of Western Australia for ratification a draft agreement providing' for 'tho taking of immigrants to Western Australia. If tho agreement is accepted by tho Commonwealth, a colony of 100 families wil) bo gradually founded in 1908, aufl if this settlement prove satisfactory 500 families will follow. The importation of large batches of Ijalian labourers has l-eeu proposal' iii .connection Ivil.ll Queensland- canclieldn - as well as- West Australia. .According io an Australian'paper, already maiiy hundreds of Italians have come In West Australia, where they have found their way into the mines, or into the forests as timber cutters. When Sir Wilfrid L(iurier was in Canada, after the Imperial Conference, he described the labourers of Piedmont, Lombard}-, and Venotia as a fiiie race, and welcomed their strong arms to Canada.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 95, 15 January 1908, Page 7
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156WHITE IMMIGRATION. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 95, 15 January 1908, Page 7
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