AGRICULTURAL COMMISSION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LX, Issue LX, 1 November 1910, Page 8

AGRICULTURAL COMMISSION.

WELCOMED AT SYDNEY. SIR CARLOW MARTIN'S ADVICE. BY CABIiE— PBESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT. (Received Nov. 1, 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, Nov. 1. The Lord Mayor entertained the Scottish Agricultural Commissioners, at a banquet yesterday. The Premier (Mr J. McGowen) said Australia wanted immigrants of the right sort to develop the interior. They hoped to successfully compete with Canada regarding British immigrants. Sir Carlow Martin, responding, said, the Cemmissioners were struck by the diversity Australia ■ off ered to tfie agricultural draftsman. It was quite evident that in Australia the forces of nature worked for man with extreme generosity. He was struck by the fact that the farmer was bearing a heavy portion of the burden of the State. They had to send wheat to the world's markets, getting international prices^ but they had to pay the Australian price of from 40 to 60 per centum above the European price for agricultural machinery. They all hoped the result of the report would be to send Scotchmen to^ Australia instead of to other countries that were not British. The time had arrived when they should have an^ organisation at Home regulating emigration, so as not to allow the country to be depleted of its best blood