WORLD ZIONIST MOVEMENT.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18230, 14 November 1924, Page 12

WORLD ZIONIST MOVEMENT.

THE JEWS IN PALESTINE.

(SPECIM. TO "THE PBBS8.")

AUCKLAND, November 13

A bright future for the Jews in Palestine is predicted by Mr David A. Brown, a business man of Detroit, ,who arrived by tho Makura on tho first stage of a tour of New Zealand and Australia in tho interests of the World Zionist Movement. He expects to visit other countries, and to reach Palestine early next year. Mr Brown was in Palestine last year studying the settlement of the Jews in that country from social, political, and angles. Ho is interested in political philosophy and the development of New Zealand and Australia, and hopes while on his present tour to Joe able to learn from tho experiments carried out in these countries much that will be of practical use in the new settlements of Palestine.", Questioned as to the extent of productive land and tho possible population in Palestine, Mr Brown said that his own conservative estimate placed the area of land in tho hands of individuals and Zionist organisations at possibly 1,000,000 acres, a quarter_ of which was perhaps under cultivation. He figured that the country could stand a population of approximately 2,000,000, a percentage of whom would be Christians and Arabs, but if the country became an industrial ono, the possibility of which he could not at present see, that estimate could be increased materially.