COTTON-GROWING
NATIVE LABOUR ESSENTIAL. ENCOURAGEMENT URGED. Reuter's TeloCTam. LONDON, October 11. Lord Derby, addressing the annual meeting of the Empire Cotton-growing Corporation, declined to discuss tho question _ of preference, bnt expressed the opinion that whatever was done to extend cotton-growing in the dominions must be not merely advantageous to them, but of the greatest advantage to Britain.
He pointed out that white labour will bo impossible in many parts of tho Empire, _ and he therefore urged the corporation to encourage natives to grow cotton of the best tyne under the superintendence of experts. He believed that eventually all Britain’s cotton requirements would come from the dominions.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11649, 13 October 1923, Page 5
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