EMIGRATION AND TRADE.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17420, 3 April 1922, Page 7

EMIGRATION AND TRADE.

IMPERIAL CO-OPEEATION. • (By Cable—Press Association—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received April 2nd, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON., March 31. The Government entertained the Hon. H. N. Barwell, Premier of South Australia, and Sir James Mitchell, Premier of West Australia, at luncheon. Mr E. F. L. Wood, Under-Secretary for t)he Colonies, who presided, said the war had left an infinity of grave troubles awaiting solution. T,he only hope of a successful solution lay in the closest co-operation between all parts of the Empire, particularly in placing the surplus population of iingland in Australia.

Mr Barwell and Sir James Mitchell adopted inter-Imperial co-operation as the keynote of tneir responses. Tho former said Australia's greatest need was the early and rapid development of her illimitable resourcee. South Australia in the next two years would take perhaps only five thousand immigrants yearly, but after that an unlimited number. "The more we take/' Ik said, "the more wo shall want. 1 ' Mr Bar\vcl( strongly Appealed for* trade cooperation. There should be some agreement, he said, to keep trade within the Empire.