AUSTRALIA’S LACK
COMPARISON WITH JAVA
(Australian Press Association)
DARWIN, June 13.
Mrs Mark Foy, of Sydney, who lias just completed a world tour, stated here that she was amazed at the prosperity she had seen everywhere except in Australia. She had motored through miles of cocoa, tapioca, tobacco, and rice plantations, and had observed endless streams of water conservation in Java. She marvelled, sbo said, when she learned that fortynine millions of people , are living peacefully in Java, and she contrasted it “with my own vast country of emptiness.” Mrs Foy said that she asked herself why Australia coidd not emulate Java. “We can grow anything that they grow,” she declared, “and but for our wretched White Australia policy, millions of capital would be available for plantations in Northern* Australia. While Java is moving ahead, Australia, with superior natural resources, is heading for bankruptcy.” Mrs Foy . added '“You will never make good on land in. the tropics without coloured labour.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 June 1930, Page 6
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160AUSTRALIA’S LACK Hokitika Guardian, 14 June 1930, Page 6
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