AUSTRALIA AND LABOUR.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8796, 25 April 1907, Page 2

AUSTRALIA AND LABOUR.

Press Association.—Copyright. London, April 24,

MrW. J. Hackett, of Westralia. read a paper to the Society of Arts dealing with the social and economic conditions of Australia. He: stated in regard to the Labour Party that calm consideration would go far to discount the fears held in so many quarters. • Mr Deakin, who presided, declared that the British public did not realise Australia's remarkable relative prosperity, enormous wealth, and inestimable opportunities. Australians themselves had not yet learned to realise Hie possibilities Mr Hughes quoted figures showing that whatever opponents asserted the Labour Party had done during tho last 15 years had not prevented Australia going ahead.