QUEENSLAND AFFAIRS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2228, 27 June 1908, Page 3

QUEENSLAND AFFAIRS.

SPEECH BY MR. KIDSTON. THE STATE’S PROGRESS. United Press Association. Copyright (Received June 26, 10.30 p.m.) LONDON, June-26. One hundred und thirty, including Air. W. Pember Reeves, were present at the Queensland dinner. S. -Air. Kidston replied to the toast of “Queensland.”. He was gratified, he said, at the States display at Shepherd’s Bush. He |lilated on the healthy expansion of all the industries of Queensland. She had no need to borrow now, and in tho fulness of prosperity such as was never known before, will not borrow -any more unless she can put tlio money to a profitable use in developing Queensland. They were going to have a period of great industrial activity. New railways would open up minerals, timber, and other hew areas for agricultural settlement. The State wanted a steady stream of white immigrants. -“The more that comes the better for us and tile better for them.” The , Exhibition at Shepherd’s Bush, was only the first essay in the propaganda of making Queensland known in the > British Isles. Queensland paid a large price for the establishment of the Commonwealth. To stop unification would be a misfortune for the . development of Australia!. There was an undoubted need for a central Government, but tbero was also a need for a strong healthy State Government. . - /Mr.. Seely, Under-Secretary for the K.». Colonies, in proposing the health of Wit Horace Tozer, Agent-General, emphasised Lord Crewe’s idea of keeping the Colonial Office entirely apart from party politics.