General Booth's Scheme

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1440, 26 September 1905, Page 2

General Booth's Scheme

The Naw Zealand Reply

Views of Australian Premiers

By Telegraph.—Press Awoeiatwn. Wellington, tliii day, The Cabinet has not come to a decision on General Booth's proposals yet. Mblboubni, this day.

Mr. Irvine, in the coarse of a speech, said that two things were necessary to bring about a proper kind of immigration. One was a powerful, well-regulated department in London, nnd tho second co-opera-tion between (ho Slatos of tho Federation to tnnlto the land ready for the poople,

Tlio l'remior of Taßtnanid wants rnoro information about Qonoral Booth's sobemo, Tho naiuro of bis questions indicates that ho does not desiro paupers, but ibat tlio immigrants must be ablo to nupport thomsclvos till the laud begins to be roproJnetivc. Tlio Prewior of Wostovn Australia, while giving gonoral support to Australian immigration, says that Western Australia intondx to proaeouto a vigorous immigration policy of its own, in wbich it will adopt its own metbods.