MUST FILL SPACES WITH EUROPEANS.
“WHITE AUSTRALIA” NOT POLICY BUT RELIGION. (United Preaa Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received September 29, 11.30 a~m.) VANCOUVER, September 28. A message from St John, New Brunswick, states that Senator Sampson (Australia), at a civic dinner in honour of the Empire Parliamentary Association, referred to a statement that, if the vacant spaces in the dominions were not filled up, the world would not .tolerate our holding these countries. He asked with what people they were to be filled. Were they to be filled with people from Asia ? “ The White Australia policy is not a policy so far as the inhabitants of Australia are concerned: it is a religion,” he said.—Australian Press Association-United Seri vice.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18579, 29 September 1928, Page 4
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