DEVELOPING AUSTRALIA.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 7 February 1927, Page 5

DEVELOPING AUSTRALIA.

BTG SCHEMES TN VIEW,

PREPARING FOR LARGE POPULATION.

BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.

LONDON, Feb. 5. General speculation is being indulged in as to whom the “four best financial business brains” may be, that will be selected, according to Air S. M. Bruce's speech, cabled from Sydney, to go to Australia to study and confer on problems of increasing Australia’s power to absorb immigration. In this connection the namics of Lord Weir and Lord Lovat and Mr Hilton Young are mentioned. The Morning Post says: “Four men must be found who are accustomed to spending millions, are able to visualise vast industries in a wilderness, and are also familiar with the economics of railroad building.' When selected they will go to Australia to act as an advisory, not as an executive body. Their work* will be to make Australia receive and absorb a gigantic population.. ‘ ‘ They will collaborate with the existing big four in Australia, namely, the Migration Commission, Messrs Gepp, Naylor, Fleming, and Gunn. Together, these bodies will form Australia’s great eight. Their deliberations will mark a new era. It will be-the task of the great eight to take Australia in hand and‘lay it out to the best advantage.

“It is town-planning on a vast scale. Nothing like it has ever been attempted before. Obviously men of this calibre cannot be found in Whitehall. They must be drawn from the leaders of industry.’ ’

The Morning Post says editorially that if, as proposed, 450,000 British men and women are to be assisted to settle in Australia daring the next ten years, some clear plan Will be essential.

At a luncheon given by the citizens of Sydney, on February 4, to welcome him home, Mr Bruce- announced that a delegation of three or four of the best financial business brains in Great Britain were coming to Australia to see whether some scheme could not be evolved under which Australia would he able to absorb more immigrants.