EMPTY AUSTRALIA.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 412, 22 January 1909, Page 5

EMPTY AUSTRALIA.

BRITISH ADVICE. LIBERAL PAPER SUGGESTS CHINESE. 1 ENGLISH WORKLESS. In* lEt.EtißAi'n—j'ress association—corißian?.l (Roc. January 21, 1L35 p.ra!) London, January-21. The "Daily News" tentatively suggests that Chinese should bo admitted within certain districts of the tropical north of Australia. The paper recommends an Imperial inquiry into tho result of experiments in connection with native races in British colonies and dependencies. Tho "Standard" urges that Australians should realise a white Australia by tho practical encouragement of tho migration of workers whoso labour in the Motherland has -boon displaced. "PLENTY OP LAND." i l London, January 20. :-In the course of his speech at the banquet' at Whitehall, Lord Northcote said there was plenty of land in Australia for generations -for etoady, sober, hardworking men. He i<gave- instances that had.como uiiflcr his personal- observation-.in-West Australia, New South Wales,- Queensland, and at Mildura; where splendid land has been rendered available-; by individual effort, aided by irrigation., ■" ■' . -,'..■'. ■ ■ : ,The newspapers, in eulogising the speeches,' - agre«'>that Australia's.chief problem is the Ifteed' of< men. Once this was solved, the Others wo ( uld prove of secondary importance;