"WHITE" AUSTRILIA.
SPEECH BY MR WATSON. United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph— Copyright. (Received June 5, 10.18 a.m.)
BRISBANE, June ,5
Mr Watson, speaking to the toast of the Federal Parliament at a function connected with his Federal tour, said that he hoped the people of Cairns, in common with others interested in the sugar industry, would make an organised and systematic effort to promote white labour. He Avas glad to .find that there was a prospect of carrying on the industry by white labour, and, if it was proved, that there was not sufficient labour to be got under reasonable conditions, he was quite willing to listen to any proposition giving the cane farmers that labour that was essential to y their success. „ When the present bounty- was fixed he had thought that the period of its operation would be .sufficient, but now he had \>orae to the conclusion that, in the interests of Queensland and Australia, we would be justified in con-, •tinuing the bonus for a further term oi. years.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8334, 5 June 1905, Page 2
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