POPULATION FOR AUSTRALIA.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9352, 22 January 1909, Page 5

POPULATION FOR AUSTRALIA.

United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. London, January 31.

The Daily News tentatively suggests the admission of Chinese within cetain districts in tropical North Australia and recommends an Imperial inquiry as to the result of esperirronls hi connection with native races in British Colonies and Dependencies. The Standard urge's Australians to realise a white Australia by the practical encouragement of immigration of workers whose labour in the Motherland has been displaced. AN INTERESTING SCHEME. Received January 33, 8.56 a.m. London, January 31. Mr E. T. Scanuell, a Westralian immigration lecturer, in the'course of a lecture at the United Service Institution, advocated the £ commutation of naval and military pensions before the age of 50, enabling pensioners to provide capital to settle on land in the colonies. Mr Soannell outlined a scheme dealing with the finance of the proposal and the safeguards protecting the permanent interests of pensioners. He insisted that the co-operation of Colonial Governments was essential to the success of the scheme. The discussion which followed the address elicited a good deal of approval of the proposal.