EMPTY AUSTRALIA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144050, 20 March 1913, Page 3

EMPTY AUSTRALIA.

A CHINESE CRITIC. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. FREMANTLE, March 19. Kwei Chih, the Chinese Consul for New Zealand, is a passenger by the Drama. Interviewed, ho said that Australia’s drawback was lack of population. "How,” he said, "do you propose to populate your vast territory if you insist on race restriction?” Kwei Chih does not agree that the decay of the Australian aboriginals is due to contact with whites. Ho considers that it is caused by the philosophical idea of isolation and absence of intercourse with other nations. He added that China was degenerating until she opened her doors fifty years ago. Australia was premature in restricting free immigration.