STRANDED IN SOUTH AFRICA.
REPATRIATION OF AUSTRALIANS.
Press Association—By Tolegrapli—Copyright.
SYDNEY, February 19. New South Wales and Queensland have declined to participate in the' Commonwealth scheme for repatriating those Australians who aro stranded in South Africa.
Mr Deakin recently _received favourable replies from Tasmania and West Australia regarding the proposal of tho Victorian Government that 1000 stranded Australians in South Africa should be assisted to return to the Commonwealth. The suggestion was that tho Commonwealth shoufd pay half the passage money, and that the States should, among iheni, find the balance.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13832, 20 February 1907, Page 5
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