MIGRANTS TO WESTRALIA.
MANY RETURN DISGUSTED. ARMY OFFICER'S CONCLUSIONS. BASED ON EIGHT MONTHS’ TOUR. LONDON, August 27Captain I. R. Murphy, of the Indian Army Reserve, on arrival at Liverpool after an eight, months' tour of West Australia, on which he is reporting to the British and Indian Governments, criticised migration methods. He pointed out that 100 persons on Lhc same ship returned disgusted. lie claims that the Australian authorities in London failed to warn migrants oi the country's peculiar hardships, il is useless for Britons to go to West Australia without capital. There is already much unemployment, and it is likely "to increase. The country is insufficiently developed to absorb more migrants. The immigration of Southern Europeans should be totally stopped throughout Australia in order to give Britons a chance.
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Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17493, 29 August 1928, Page 7
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130MIGRANTS TO WESTRALIA. Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17493, 29 August 1928, Page 7
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