AUSTRALIA'S NEEDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17483, 29 May 1920, Page 7

AUSTRALIA'S NEEDS.

IMMIGRANTS FROM BRITAIN. ■ RESOURCES UNIMPAIRED. A. and N.Z. ' * LONDON, May 27. Mr. W- A. Watt, Federal Treasurer, wisTentertained at luncheon to-day by the Carlton 'Grub. He': explained Australia's ' finances, and said, that apart from the war Australian indebtedness was due principally to reproductive works. The Australia! repatriation scheme was the most . liberal the Empire— in the * Australians having voluntarily ~;?..V«SJJjbHUo war, deserved the best the . .■ffflfaa'cduld give them. It was proposed tiat a meeting oi city, men bs held early ;J to discaa \he consolidation at the war .;•; debts of the Empire. Australia had not : lost her equanimity over the war debt, : and was proud in the belief that her resources, with awlitional population would §|i tasfly cany the load. She badly wanted ' t"/immigrants provided by her own lith and 4 kin, the natural increase being insuffi~i";. cient to bold the country. The Governm.' Riant proposed to initiate an immigration W§ campaign, and within a few months ]-'.-, British hoardings would be splashed with H announcementß for the purpose of getting : ; men and women willing to stake their ;■ fortunes in a new country. Australia • realised tho gravity of the Eastern situa- |! tion and the necessity for filling up its : V vacant places. -