LORD NORTHCLIFFR SPEAKS OUT.

Kaikoura Star, Volume XLII, Issue 35, 2 May 1922, Page 2

LORD NORTHCLIFFR SPEAKS OUT.

A iscount Northcliffc is back in Europe —in France, as it matter of fact—from his remarkable world-tour, bronzed, almost slim, and with renewed health and vigour says the Daily Mirror of March 6). No statesman in Britain to-day has J come into recent close personal contact, as Lord Northcliffe has done, with tho. tremendous issues now arising for set-' tlement in distant lands, issues which may affect every man, woman and child in these islands. ’Our statesmen know what they are told. Lord Northcliffe speaks of what he has seen. In his journey Lord Northcliffe had the ipimense advantage, of possessing standards of comparison. He saw’ Canada before its great erti of expansion began, the Nile when its peasantry had ' not waxed fat and kicked, Palestine when the calm of ages brooded over tho land. THE EMPTINESS OF AUSTRALIA. Lord Northcliffe told me that he was deeply troubled about the emptiness of Australia. “I was struck,”“he said, “by the Extraordinary prosperity of Australia, but still more so by the total absence of any properly-organised immigration “No person should emigrate to;Australia just now’,” continued Lord Northcliffe, “unless a job out there has been

guaranteed him by a friend, or unlesshe has sufficient capital to support himself and his family while he s getting personally acquainted with the country. “New Zealand is the most beautiful country I saw’, not excepting Japan. I believe the opportunities in New Zea land for the right .kind of person are* the best in the world to-day, but preferably for those with capital and patience We turned to India. “The present condition of India, observed Laid North cliffo, “is that in my opinion, a refl?J* of the present government at home, and the same is true of Egypt and of Palestine, where you have both govenors governed entirely uncertain about the attitude of Downing-street, you arc

bound to have a partial paralysis of the" functions of government. Arrest Ghandi a great many people cry out here. ‘Yes’ replies the Anglo<ndian, ‘and Downing street will let him out to-morrow. Where ever I w’ont in the East J found uncertainty as to what the government at home would do.