PEOPLING THE EMPIRE.
CANADA'S ATTRACTIONS.. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright Vancouver, August 29. The Hon. J. G. Jenkins, who was a member of eovoral South Australian Ministries, and from 1905' to UIOB AgentGeneral for > that State, is on his way to the International Conference of Chambers of Commerce- at Boston. Interviewed here, he said Australia would never Ira able to compete with Canada for immigrants. Canada's great advantage was its relative nearness to Britain, and consequent cheap passago rates. 'Mr. Jenkins suggested that thero was much, force in the sentimental objection. to the difficulty of returning to the Home Land from Australia for many years. Immigrants preferred Canada, where they were within easy reach of England, for their holidays.
IMMIGRANTS POURING IN. Sydney, August 30. . Three steamers landed over 2000 immigrants yesterday.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1533, 31 August 1912, Page 5
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130PEOPLING THE EMPIRE. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1533, 31 August 1912, Page 5
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