TURN OF THE TIDE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18580, 14 December 1934, Page 14

TURN OF THE TIDE

FLOW OF MIGRANTS • *■' - -» ** ;r AUSTRALIA AND N.Z. cFrom his observations, what he has ■been told, and from his consideration of the subject, Mr W. Vero Bead, a young Sydney solicitor who is returning to Australia after a trip abroad, is convinced that the tide of migration is turning towards Australia and New Zealand. He expressed this opinion to interviewers on his arrival gt Wellington. have had'inquiries as to conditions in Australia from people in China, France, Italy, England, and the United Statep,” he said, “and in all those countries, with the exception of flnglatul, things are definitely bad. England is the most prosperous country in the world at the present time, and it would seem that Australia and New. Zealand came next. As a result of conditions in other countries and the fact that America, with 120,000,000 people, does not now present the opportunities it did, people are looking to Australia and New Zealand as countries that are going to develop in the . future as America has’ in the pas*.” Another factor in the turn of the tide, said Mr Bead, was the wonderfully quick means of communication piroyided by the air-mail services. In the past when peoplo wanted to invest xnOfiey they looked upon Australia as •being at the end of the world, but nowit was possible for a person with interests there to get out to Australia ip a few days, which was a very dif- . feront proposition. The commencement of the Imperial Airways service probably marked the beginning of a new ora in Australia’s development.