POPULATION PROBLEM
TREATMENT OF ASIATICS,
SPEECH HY COLONEL SEELS",
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LONDON, Oetobev 29. Colon.?! Seely (Undw-,secretary for the Colonies), dpanking at a Liberal-Colonial Club function, said he anticipated an Oariy .sctllemsnt of the Indian dilliculty in the. Transvaal. Natal's problem, lie said, was harder, but it. might be solved bv excluding furl-her immigrants, and by ■treating generously those already there. Australia, ou the. other hand, was primarily a while man's country, ami Australian opinion clung so earnestly to the ideal of a Wliito Aniridia tliat- she liad dedared her determination to make the experiment, of peopling even her tropical territory with whites. The success of the experiment was a question of population. Australia's future depended, on the possibility ot an increased white immijjrat-ion, »aiid on a higher birth rate of whites.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14359, 31 October 1908, Page 9
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