WHITE AUSTRALIA

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 221, 14 June 1930, Page 11

WHITE AUSTRALIA

■ Policy Condemned SYDNEY WOMAN’S TOUR Coloured Labour in Tropica I Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Rec. June 18, 10.30 p.m.) Darwin, June 18. Mrs. Mark Foy, of Sydney, who has just completed a world tour, said she was amazed at the prosperity everywhere except in Australia. She motored through miles of cocoa, tapioca, tobacco and rice plantations, and endless streams of water conservation in Java. She marvelled when she learned that forty-nine million people were living peacefully, and contrasted it “with my own vast country of emptiness;” She said she asked herself why we could not emulate Java. “We can grow anything they grow, and but for our wretched White Australia policy, millions, of capital would be available for plantations in Northern Australia. While Java is moving ahead, Australia, with her superior natural resources, is heading for bankruptcy.” ' She added: “You can never make good on land in the tropics without coloured labour.” POSITION ON CANEFIELDS * 'Preference to Italians Brisbane, June 13. Although two hundred British subjects offered for employment as canecutters at the Goondi mill, not one was engaged. Thirty-two - gangs signed oh and of 277 cutters employed over 200 were Italians. The position is tense, and the police are watching the situation closely.

Darwin, June 18.