AUSTRALIA'S GREAT NEED
MORE AUSTRALIANS. By Telegraph—Pres3 Association—Copyright. SYDNEY, February 17. Referring to the necessity for more people, and while favouring tho immigration proposals, tho Federal Prime Minister, Mr A. Deakin, in a speech at Inverell, emphasised that what the country wanted was more of its own people —more Australians. Surely, lie said, it would be- possible for Australia to devise a policy by which instead of a child being regarded as an encumbrance it would bo welcomed as a valuable asset. Touching on the subject of the Northern Territory, ho said that unless it was speedily peopled they would Lave to see to its defence by the establishment of a military barracks.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7056, 18 February 1910, Page 1
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