RACE ANTIPATHY

Hokitika Guardian, 13 June 1930, Page 3

RACE ANTIPATHY

IN QG KEXSLA NI)

{Australian Press Association)

SYDNEY, June 12

A message PcoJiiTbwusviile, Queensland, states iiiat derisive comment has been occasioned by the Hon. Franu Fordc’s, statement cabled yesterday regarding the sug;\r field labour question and the Italian. The message says that local statistics disclose that the whole sugar industry in the north of Townsville is in the hands of aliens. As an instance of a steady growth in the alien population ol Northern Queensland, it is also stated that in the Ayr district forty-three cane farms, valued at a million and a half sterling, have passed from British -to Italian control or .ownership. The Italians are working on a community basis. Sixty farms in the Tally district, which hitherto have been, leased'to British subjects, have now also passed into the hands of aliens.

CONCERN IN ITALY

LONDON,' June 11

The news from Queensland regarding friction with, the—ltalians on the sugar fields has naturally caused some irritation do Italy.

Writing: in tile paper -‘‘Popolo a’Italia,”" under the heading-of ‘•‘KgotD’o Overseas,” Signor' Arnaldo ATussplin.i,! the Dime's .brother declares that this agitation against the Italian lalxiurefs is symptomatic of the altitude of the dominions.

He points out that Australia is a big country, and that work in the interior is disliked by the Australians; nor will they allow., other pco;.lo to do it. The British unemployed do not care to go either- to Australia or to Canada, They prefer to remain in England, and to receive the dole. This, he adds, is contrary to the old noble .traditions of Britain.-