WHITE MAN’S COUNTRY

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 95, 17 January 1924, Page 7

WHITE MAN’S COUNTRY

COLOURED LABOUR IN AUSTRALIA Sydney. January 16. Lord Leverhulme, replying to the criticisms of his remarks about coloured labour for the Northern Teiritorv, said that Australia was right in maintaining that Australia should be a white man’s country. So was America, but yet the negroes did the donkey work there.' Unless God had made a colossal blunder, each race had been put in an appointed place.' Just as Eskimos were adapted to tho. Polar regions, so through the centuries natives had developed pigments for the skin and bodily modifications enabling them to resist the extremes of heat, suiting them to the tropics. White men could cultivate crops in the Northern Territory, but not under the present economic conditions. It was a degradation to ask ‘white men to perform work for which their bodies were not suited. “If Australia does not intend to count the cost, but proposes to tax the people to the extent. . of millions to nurse white men working under unsuitable conditions, then may be,” he said, “a wall car. be built around themselves and coloured labour excluded from the Commonwealth.” —Press Assn.