WHITE AUSTRALIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 July 1923, Page 3

WHITE AUSTRALIA.

MR. HUGHES’ AVARXINH

(Received this day at. 12.45 p.m.) SYDNEY, July l». Mr Hughes, in u special article in the ‘■Daily Telegraph” urging the need for development and population ot Australia-, points out that Japan, as a matter of necessity of life and death, must find tin outlet for her surplus population. She believes in the greatness of her destiny and feels capable cf going much lurthcr than she hay done in national development, and is she to he told that she alone among the nations must not <h> so. it is hardly lor Australia, whose great need is population, to complain if she does not consent to impose checks on her ■out 1 population. If these million)' knock at our door, how are we to deny admittance. We cannot hope to find shelter behind some treaty. \\ a-.liing-ton or the League of Nations cannot

help us, and it will be to tile interest of the greater part of the world that Ti* these starving millions should settle in Australia rather than with them. These with certain death behind them, may never come, but il they do and lind us still a mere handful of penile in possession ol a great continent, then for us. and our cherished ideals it is the end. We must prove ourselves worthy to tome <>lf from an overcrowded world, unu' ol the. Earth’s fairest possessions. A little time is still mil's to Prepare, by tilling our vacant spaces with men am women of our own race, a.id do all |jl that needs doing to inaKo ii (MH 01,1 W claim to a great fruitful continent.