URGENT!
PEOPLING AUSTRALIA. BOLD EFFORT NEEDED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received February 6. noon.) LONDON. Feb. 5. Mr Allen, premier of Victoria, interviewed. said tin* peopling of Australia was urgent- in view of the overcrowding of other countries. The British race would lose a. moral right- to hold the continent,, unless it peopled the land.
The present- rate of immigration ought to he increased six-fold by a bold AngloAustralian effort, designed to open up outback Australia.' Greater capital was necessary. Jt ought to lie possible to arrange a scheme whereby the money non spent- on doles in Britain would be used for settling recipients and others in Australia. The need for speedier development was self-evident.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16952, 6 February 1926, Page 7
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116URGENT! Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16952, 6 February 1926, Page 7
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