STRANGE POLICY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 81, 7 April 1910, Page 7

STRANGE POLICY.

AUSTRALIA AND P6POLAT4OII, PICKING AND CHOQBIN6. RACE SUICTDSL, By Telegraph. — Press Aseaeiattafc— < Cepyti^A, (Received April 7, 9.40 >*.<m.) LONDON April. ~The Pall Mall Gazette, referring to tn« discussion that has taken ptaee over (ike statement by the Sydney coc*e6pond«jfc of The Times — that married emigstaaoi* to Now South Wales were denied; employment becaase they were e*catzxb*g»4 with children — remarks: — "fJfeetber ii» •veto of children is baeed on climatic or economic reasons, it is a eteange pois^ for a Continent requiring, above efety-. thing, population. It is axbrtraqQ, enough to pick and choose tke ablebodied few and leave Etagfeod with tb« undesirable remainder, but it amounts to race suicide to discourage the accepted, few from adding to their number." RECENT STRICTURES. STATEMENT BY SIR GEORGEXREm, LONDON, 6th April. Sir Geo. Reid, High Commissioner for the Commonwealth, has issued a statement in which he says : — "There is some ground' for recent strictures upon the advertisements, of some Australian employers for married women without encumbrances, but these cases, which are xegrettable, are not common. To extead their significance into a general unwillingness to welcome married immigrant* is a gross injustice. Australia wants workers and their wives and families." He quotes the telegram from the Commonwealth Primo Minister, Mr. Deakin, showing that the assistance offered! by the Government to married 1 immigrant* and their children is greater than that offered by any country seeking! population. Sir Geo. Reid adds: — "The troth is that Australia has no fixed agricultural labouring class. The farm worker of today becomes the prosperous farmer of a few years hence. Industrious British, emigrants may go assured that they wili have power quickly to become freeholders. Wages are high, and land is obtainable at easy prices." AUSTRALIA'S. MOST VITAL INTERESTS. ELEMENTARY 1 FEATURES OF IMMf. GRATION PROBLEM. AS SET OUT BY THE TIMES. (Received) April 7, 10 a.m.) LONDON, 6fch April. The Times, in a leader, cordially sym* pathiges with the gist of Sir George Reid's statement, but declares that tha spokesmen of Australian opinion — official and unofficial — are sometimes over-hasty in iesenting criticism. The original article did not complain about the Australian Governments, but applied to owners of farms — particularly absentee landlords. "It is surprising," continues The Times, "that such an appeal was not vigorously supported by representatives of Australian interests in England', particularly by the High Commissioner." The Times quotes one of Mr. Deakin's speeches in proof of its correspondent's facts, and) adds : — "It is unnecessary to inveigh against the actions of the AutstNnlian farmer or farm manager, but their actions seriously menace Australia's most vital interests. A large number of Australians fail to grasp some of the elementary features of the immigratio» problem. The most elementary is fchat the supply of sound, white immigrants is likely in the coming years to fall considerably below the demand. Australia must show greater inducements than, rival countries equally anxious for the best kind of immigrants, and must not take them as a thankless gift. Australia will also have to import its imnngraaiii young and rear them in her own atxnoft* phere for her own ends." PREMIER OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA. .RECEPTION IN EDINBURGH. (Received April 7, 10 a.m.) LONDON, 6th ApriL Tho Hon. R. J. Moore, Premier of Western. Australia, was welcomed in Edinburgh by a convention representing 202 burghs. [Mr. Mooro has been addressing meetings in several provincial towns on the subject of emigration to Australia, and particularly to his own State. He has several other engagements.]