AUSTRALIAN PROBLEMS.
IMMIGRANTS BADLY NEEDED. Press Association—Electric .Telegraph—Copyright (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, Friday. Mr W. A. Watt (Federal Treasurer) was’entertained at luncheon in the city at the Carlton Club. Ho explained Australia’s finances. Australian repatriation was the most liberal in the Empire, and probably in the world. The Australians, having voluntarily served in the war, deserved the best the nation could give-them. lie proposed a meeting of city men. to discuss the consolidation of the war debts of the. Empire. Australia had not lost her equanimity over the war debt. She had the proud belief that her resources, with additional population, would easily carry the load. Australia, he said, badly wanted immigrants, provided they were her own latli and kin; the natural increase was insufficient, and the Government proposed to initiate an immigration campaign with a few months. British hoardings would be splashed with announceinents for the purpose of getting the overspill of men and women willing to stake their fortunes in a new country. lie realised the gravity of the Eastern situation.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14129, 29 May 1920, Page 5
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175AUSTRALIAN PROBLEMS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14129, 29 May 1920, Page 5
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