PALESTINE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 26 November 1924, Page 8

PALESTINE.

UNDER BRITISH MANDATE. Mr. David A. Brown, ■ a prominent business man of Detroit, Michigan, who is at present in Wellington in the course of a tour of the Dominion, has for some time past taken a keen inter-' jest in the Zionist movement in Palestine. 'Mr Brown, who is a- Jew by race and an American by birth, is president of the General Necessities Corporation, Detroit, and two years ago he visited Palestine and furnished a report to the Palestine Foundation ;Fund organisation in America on his tour. . Mr Brown ; states that the Jews have flocked 1 to Palestine from all parts of the world, and have-assisted materially in the progress of that country. Great strides, he says, : have been made in the growing of citrus fruits, olives, nuts, and tobacco. He explained that those interested in the Zionist movement naturally stood by the Balfour declaration that Palestine should be a home for the Jews. The jews and the Arabs must, he asserted, live fully together. . Many of the reports which had been published regarding friction between the two races were exaggerated, and evidently came from Moslem sources. The return of the Jews would greatly benefit the Arabs by teaching them modern methods of farming. Splendid hospitals have been nrovided by the Jewish, organisation. The treatment was free, and there were more Arabs than Jews in the clinics. The child welfare movement was also proving of great benefit to the Arabs. In some areas the soil was rich, and produced exceptionally fine Grapes also grow well, and the Jewish settlers are manufacturing wines of the finest quality. Dairying’ is making headway, "the herds having been improved by the importation of Jersey and other milking strains. Substantial progress has been made in roading the country. The Jews, he said, would _ preserve the sftcred places of the Christian religion, and, of course, the whole land had intimate relations to their own- religion. The primary education of the people is undertaken, by the British Government, hut the Jews have their own schools, and they are building a university., Hebrew, he 1 added, would again become one of the living languages.