AUSTRALIA

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1675, 16 February 1906, Page 2

AUSTRALIA

DISCUSSION AT COLONIAL

INSTITUTE.

By telegraph, Press Asa’n, Copyright London, Feb. 14. Mr Jenkins, Agent-General for South AnstralU in » P a P er read before tha Dial Institute on the products of Australia, controverted the idea that the interior of the Continent was a desert. The value of Australia’s agriculture industries would soon eclipse the paetorel. He suggested a reduction or removal of the duty on Aus. tralian wine, and dwelt specially on the capacity of the Northern Territory to grow valuable tropical proluc's. A 06418 ! 1 ® offered great possibilities for the payable growth of cotton, since land was so cheap compared with America. He advocated a new stream of immigration to Australia. Beyond its immense material assets, Australia offered its creditors security outweighing them all in the undoubted onaracter of the debtors themselves. Sir Charles Sydenham Clarke, prestdmg, justified Australia’s muob-oriticised expertmental legislation, remarking that experiments led to progress. After comparing her losses with those of Canada and South Africa, he said there was.no valid reason against the employment of emtable labor in tropical parts which were uneuitod to white field labor.