GREAT FLOW OF IMMIGRANTS TO AUSTRALIA
The Plans For Three Years (Rec. 11.40) CANBERRA, Aug. 9 British shipping will be available to bring seventy-two thousand British migrants io Australia in the year 1949, eighty thousand , migrants in WoO, and eigntyseven thousand in 19oi. This assurance was given to Mr J. B. chiiiey, rnme Minister, uy trie Britisn Secretary of the Commonwealth Relations, Mr Noel saxer, during Mr Chiiiey’s visit io Bi ILUIII. The Federal Minister oi Immigration, Mr caiweii, said to-day tnat tnese ngures were oased on me shipping tnm is now assured, and aid not LtiKc into account additional shipping which, he hoped, could be made avanuoie, on the migrant run. 11ns annuuiicemeiic meant tnac Australia’s original immigration target would be passed with a comfortaple margin within a couple of years. ine Cabinet said that he was also anticipating a heavier flow of immigrants trom otner sources including Europe.
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Grey River Argus, 10 August 1948, Page 4
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