BRITONS TODAY
COMPARISONS INSTITUTED BY AGENT=GENERAL CONDITIONS OF MIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA. SETTLERS OF RIGHT KIND NEEDED. By Telegraph.—Press Association, Copyright. CARDIFF, May 12. The Agent-General for Western Australia in London, Sir Hal Colebatch, addressing a branch of the Overseas League expressed the opinion that present-day Britons were incapable of founding a new empire. He drew a comparison between Britons who settled in Australia and found life too hard and the gains too few and the southern Europeans who enter the country without official encouragement and made good by hard work. His hearers sat in silence as Sir Hal made sport of Britain’s so-called liberty. “What is wanted in this country is a 10-year plan aimed at building up the people’s mental, moral, and physical standard,” he said'. He advocated compulsory military training and added that Australia wanted a 98 per cent British population, but must have Britons of the right sort.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 May 1938, Page 7
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