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Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 December 1921, Page 3

Au interesting suggestion was put forward in an article in a recent issue of the New York Herald. The writer suggests that Japan's long-standing problem of superfluous population could be solved by buying Australia, allowing the Japs' to have it and sending the five million white people in Australia to New Zealand and Canada. The writer, who signs himself “Pto Bono Publico,” says “There are about 5,000,000 white men inhabiting the continent of Australia, which is large enough to support and contain 50 or more millions of people. It is a-continent lar away and remote from the while men of Europe and America. Why, should not the 5,000,000 white men move .to Canada, which lias room for many more millions of increased population, and sell Ausiralia to the Japanese? The white men would be amply compensated and given new land in Canada or New Zealand. The Japanese would be remote and happy, California free from the Japanese question, and Canada rejoicing in a much-needed addition to her population. The Japanese could cultivate the interior of Australia, so long untouched by the whites."