AUSTRALIAN IMMIGRATION
STATE V. COMMONWEALTH
hughesbarwell controversy. A. and N.Z. LONDON, March 15. Press cablegrams from Melbourne report that Mr. W. M. Hughes, in criticising Mr. H. N. Barwell's statements on immigration, condemned South Australia's policy of reducing the immigration tn a trickle. Mr. Barwell, in an interview, defended South Australia's determination to settlesoldiers first. The indiscriminate immigration, he said, which Mr. Hughes advocated, was pure madness. Mr. Hughes' statement that only 400 immigrants had squeezed into South Australia in the year was inaccurate. Double that number arrived, unassisted, from Britain, besides a much larger number who,
imarily emigrating to other States, were bracted to South Australia by the liberal
land laws. Twenty-ono thousand immigrants had entered South Australia in the last decade, notwithstanding the cessation of immigration during war time.
Mr. Harwell advised Mr. Hughes to placo Uie industrial system on a sound economic! footing. Australia could then absorb hundreds of thousands of Britishers.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18042, 17 March 1922, Page 5
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