AUSTRALIA.
LONDON, February 3. Norman Rae, a member of the Commons speaking at a dinner of the British Wool Federation at Bradford, said he recently visited Australia. The wool industry there was passing thfojugh one of the worst times it had known., Hardly single grower, except the great Companies with big reserves and cheap lands, was making any money: “They have got protection, clean run made in Australia.” High tariff accentuated the building up of enormous centres of population and the starving of land and labour. Until Australia improved the conditions existing for those working on the land it could not expect and would not obtain the right class of immigrant. The life of women and farmers daughters was one of slavery.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 February 1922, Page 4
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122AUSTRALIA. Hokitika Guardian, 4 February 1922, Page 4
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