ADVANCING AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18629, 9 February 1924, Page 9

ADVANCING AUSTRALIA.

TRADE MISSION TO CANADA NO BLACK. LABOUR NEEDED. Australian and N.Z. liable Association(Kecd. 9.8 p.m.) OTTAWA. Feb. 7 Preliminalry conferences of .Canadian and Australian representatives on reciprocal tariff preference have not been productive of important results. They were merely preliminary to meetings to be held next week after the return of the Australian delegates from visiting other Canadian cities. Following- conferences yesterday. Senator R. V. Wilson gave to the Australian and New Zealand Press Association the following summary of results: —"We got away from a good start, and decided to subject to technical examination all details concerning individual items of trade in which the two countries are interested. Tie Australian representatives in the meantime are making themselves fully conversant with; Canadian manufactures of interest to. Australia."

At Montreal Senator •Wilson will consult the Quebec Liquor Commission on the possibilties v of the importation of Australian wines and spirits for sale in the province, which now imports large quantities of beverages from England.

At Toronto to-day . Senator Wilson, addressing the British Empire Club, expressed Mr. S. M. Bruce's apologies for his inability to come to Canada. He said that Mr. Bruce was ready to make sacrifices during the ' war, and now was ready to continue sacrifices, in the interests of the Empire.

"Our problem of Empire building is great," proceeded Senator Wilson. " There are 2,000,000 unemployed in England, which Canada and Australia should and could absorb. Production of wealth spells production of defence. Australia offers the English immigrant opportunities of good living under reasonable conditions. God never intended that we should hold Australia unless we develop it."

Commenting on Lord Leverhulme's reported comment that Australia could not be developed without (coloured labour, Senator Wilson said that Australia would be developed by thoroughbred white labour, not black. He concluded with a reference to the British Empire Exhibition, saying that an atmosphere had been created, and it was now time for Australia to display her goods, and the world would realise that Australia had arrived.