NORTHERN TERRITORY

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 54, 6 March 1922, Page 7

NORTHERN TERRITORY

WHITE AUSTRALIA POLICY

COLOURED LABOUR QUESTION.

(»NIT»» PRISS ASSOCIATION.—COPIRI9BT.)

(AUSTRALIAN ■ NEW ZBALAND CABLH ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 3rd March.

The Agent-General for Western Australia (Sir James. Connolly), interviewed in reference to the scheme for introducing coloured lab6ur into .the Northern Territory, said that he had good reason to believe that the Imperial Government was favourably inclined to the scheme as a matter of Empire concern, because it would help to "close the back-door of a Continent which menaced the unpeopled territories of Northern Australia. He believed that there was a possibility of the Imperial Government finalising the scheme, provided that the Commonwealth agreed to share the financial responsibility. Mr. H. N_. Barwell (Premier of South Australia), interviewed by London newspapers, confessed that he was pnrenentant of the impractkabilitv of the White Australia policy in the Northern Territory. He was still receiving shoals of letters.from ethnologists* medical men, and scientists, supporting his contention that white me,n were «oonomically ineffective, and women and children were not robust in the Northern Territory.