PEOPLING THE DOMINIONS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 2 May 1935, Page 7

PEOPLING THE DOMINIONS

UNDERSECRETARY’S VIEWS:. : Referring to his visit to' the Antipodes in a speech to the Royal Empire Society,. Mr Malcolm, MacDonald) Un-der-Secretary for the Dominions,.,. Said - ' that one of the impressions he had " brought away with him’ was that there was far too little contact and under- ' ■ ' standing between Australia “aiid Bri- ...) tain. They did not-appreciate each' other’s problems as they should.’ 1 ' The way in which- Australian and United Kingdom interests.. could be reconciled must be worked-out. In England .. itT must be recognised that it- was essential that there should'be a development of economic secondary industries in AuS-'-tralia. It was in Britain’s interest-to see Australia supporting a larger population, and if Australia'was ever really to become a fully: populated country,. ,T it was going td be' T>y the employment of more and more people in her secondary industries. He believed Britain' would succeed in*obtaining a proper 'solution of her problems with, the Dominions if their claim' to development was recognised and appreciated. Any policy which checked development would he fatal, lie had come back more firmly convinced than ever that the power and authority of the British peoples in , the future depended on the gradual : peopling of Australia, Ne\v ? Zealaud, ana L Canada.