UNFIT TO MAKE EMPIRE !

Grey River Argus, 13 May 1938, Page 7

UNFIT TO MAKE EMPIRE !

British Migrants

CRITICISED BY AUSTRALIAN AGENT-GENERAL.

(Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] (Received May 12, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, May 12.

Hon. Hal Colebatch, the AgentGeneral for Western Australia, speaking at Cardiff to the local branch of the Overseas League, expressed the opinion that the present day Britishers are not capable of founding a new Empire. He said that tjiose Britishers who now settled in Australia found life to be too hard there, and found the gains too few. Mr Colebatch drew comparisons between these Britishers and Southern Europeans who were entering the country without official encouragement. He said the Southern European migrants to Australia made good by hard (work. His hearers sat in silence as Mr Colebatch made sport of Britain’s socalled liberty. “What is wanted in this country,” he said, “is a ten-year plan aimed at building up the British people’s mental, moral, and physical standard.” He said he was an advocate of compulsory militarv training, and he added that Australia wanted ninetyeight per cent, of the population to he but thev must be Britishers of the right sort.