AUSTRALIA'S NEEDS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19131, 28 September 1936, Page 9

AUSTRALIA'S NEEDS

Reeling between states sir georoe julius; views , . .. . ADELAIDE, Sept. 15. Sir; George; Julius,' chairman of .the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, on his arrival in Adelaide to-day stated that the suspicion and feeling that exited between the smaller and larger States were a barrier to an attack from tjie real national outlook on the problems of population, employment and defence, i i " The decentralisation of industry would do' much to break down the unfortunate feeling that existed between primary and secondary producers in the different States. Sir George said. The sooner Australia realised that secondary production and primary production must work together and were essential to each other, the- sooner would the country develop the population and industry that were absolutely necessary. "The major problem facing Australia is the building up of its population, and this will be impossible without a- big expansion of secondary industry," stated Sir George. "With world conditions as they are. unless we are prepared to take the kind of population that we want, we mav be driven to accept that which wo do not want. British, Teutonic, and Scandinavian stock has helped to build Australia, and that is the type I want to see come here. Underlying everything is the question of defence, and unless Australia can build np its secondary industries sufficiently to be largely independent of outside "sources of supply in time of! emergency, the country will be exposed to grave danger."