AUSTRALIA AND POPULATION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 82, 8 April 1910, Page 8

AUSTRALIA AND POPULATION.

SIR GEORGE REID'S STATEMENT APPLAUDED. Bj Telefrapn. -- Press Association.— Copyright, (Received April 8, 10 a.m.) LONDON, 7th April. The Daily Graphic applauds the statement by the Australian High Commissioner (Sir George Reid) with regard to the recent strictures upon the advertisements of some Australian employers £|r married women without encumbrances, and says it is satisfactory to know that assisted passages are given to the families of men who have immigrated in advance and have established their foothold. The Daily News declares that something more is needed than the replenishment of population from without. The best thing for Australia would be a personal proclamation of Mr. Roosevelt's warnings against race-suicide. The News refers to Mr. Rudyard Kipling's, ill-informed allusion to the Australian mother with her "children nine and ten." [In his statement, Sir George Reid, while admitting that there is some ground for the strictures, says that instances, though regrettable, are not common, and that to extend their significance into a general unwillingness to welcome married immigrants is a gross injustice. Australia wants workers with their wives and families. He quoted the telegram from the Commonwealth Prime Minister, Mr., Deakin, showing that the assistance offered by the Government to married immigrants -and their children was greater than that offered by any country seeking population.]