JEWS IN PALESTINE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 November 1924, Page 2

JEWS IN PALESTINE.

A BRIGHT FUTURE. A bright future for the Jews in Palestine is predicted by Mr David A. Brown, a business man of Detroit, who arrived in Auckland on the first stage of a tour in New Zealand and Australia in the interests of the world Zionist movement. He expects to visit other countries and to reach Palestine early next year. Mr Brown was in Palestine last year, studying the settlement of the Jews in that country from social, political and economic angles. He is interested in political philosophy, and the development of New Zealand and Australia, and hopes while on his present tour to he able to learn from experiments carried out in these countries much that will he of practical use in the new settlements in Palestine.

Questioned as to the extent of productive land and possible population in Palestine. Mr Brown said that his own conservative estimate placed the area of land in the hands of individuals and Zionist organisations as possibly 1,000,000 acres, a quarter of which was perhaps under cultivation. He figured that the country could stand a population of approximately 2.000,000, a percentage of whom would be Christians and Arabs, but if the country became an industrial one, the possibility of which he could not at present see, that estimate could be increased materially.