WHITE AUSTRALIA POLICY

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 201, 14 November 1927, Page 13

WHITE AUSTRALIA POLICY

MR. AMERY A WARM SUPPORTER APPEAL FOR THE BRITISH MIGRANT INSTANCING the troubles which had arisen in America, through, the negro, and in South Africa, through the Asiatic, the Secretary of State for the Dominions, Mr. L. S. Amery, in a speech at Brisbane warmly supported the White Australia policy, appealing for a better reception of the British migrant.

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Reed. 11.55 a.m. BRISBANE, To-day. THE Secretary of State for the Dominions, Mr. L. S. Amery, speaking at the State banquet at Parliament House, strongly supported the White Australia policy. Referring to the wonderful productivity of Queensland, and the hope for its development, he said there was a solution tempting and attractive at first glance to certain minds, namely, by coloured labour. The reasons which had led Australia to reject that solution were very strong. He instanced the troubles which had arisen in America through the negro, and in South Africa through the Asiatic problems. Coloured labour might be cheaper, but the community had higher stand-

ards of efficiency and enterprise, and a greater idea of scientific methods of development than a coloured or mixed community could possess. A high standard of living made for a good Home market. There was no market like the Home market in its immediate effect on development. - If Australia wanted to enlarge and strengthen her Home markets she must secure a larger population. In their attitude toward migration there was a tendency to regard the migrant as a competitor in the labour market, but the point of view was that any newcomer who found productive work was an employer, because he was also a consumer, and therefore an employer of labour of the rest of his fellow-citizens. As long as the newcomer was of the right type and rightly placed, he was not a competitor but a helper in the labour market. —A. and N.Z.