QUEENSLAND'S SERVICE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 305, 18 September 1908, Page 7

QUEENSLAND'S SERVICE.

FREEZING SPACE. FACILITIES FOR IMMIGRANTS. (BT TELEGEAFIl —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.) London, September 16. Queensland's new Torres Straits service will provide for a minimum of 80,000 cubic feet of spaco for refrigerated produce on each steamor, and accommodation for 200 emigrants at £12 a head. MR. KIDSTON ON IMMIGRATION. The 80,000 cuoic feet of refrigerating space was provided in the original specifications. As regards tho immigrants, however, Mr. Kidston seems to have secured better terms than was provided in the specifications, which originally stipulated for 150 passengers. Mr. Kidston expresses great belief in an immigration policy, but says ho is not going to start " an indiscriminate system, which would simply flood Queensland with undesirables from the Old Country. ... If Queensland wero in a proper relation to the Old Country, wo should have 20,000 families a year, instead of tho practical stoppage that has taken place. . . . I am primarily wanting farming immigrants— not only labourers, but farmers, men who liavo' small capital, or large capital lor that matter." Some timo ago, Queensland inaugurated a system of immigration, partly paid lor by the Government, chiefly in tho interests of the sugar industry. Under this system mon could be landed in Queensland at a cost to the oujv nloyer of JBS per head.