THE NEED OF CAPITAL.
SPEECH BY SOUTH AUSTRALIA’S PREMIER.
(Received 11.25 a.m.) London, March 27
The Hon. A, A. Kirkpatrick (AgentGenhral for South Australia) gave a luncheon in hohOur of the Hon. A. H. Peake (Premier of South Australia), among those present being Hon. Mr Harcourt (Secretary of State for the Colonies), Sir George Reid (Commonwealth High Commissioner), the Hdn. W. A. Watt (Premier of Victoria), the Hon. T. Mackenzie (High Commissioner for New Zealand), Mr T. A.‘ Coghlan (Agent-General for New South Wales), the Hon. W. A. Holman (Attorney-General for New South Wales), as well as other prominent South Australians. Mr Peake said that British capital was essential if workO of development were to he pushed forward. Australians sometimes wondered at seeing foreign countries preferred by capitalists before the dominions, who were never a day behind ,with interest and repayment of capital. If British financiers assisted irrigation, railways, and other works, millions of acres would be opened for emigrants from congested areas in the Motherland.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 68, 28 March 1913, Page 6
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166THE NEED OF CAPITAL. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 68, 28 March 1913, Page 6
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