SETTLEMENT OF AUSTRALIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 28 August 1919, Page 5

SETTLEMENT OF AUSTRALIA.

' DANGER OF EMPTY NORTH. . . LONDON‘, Aug. 3. The Times, in a. leader, says .‘that the results of the investigations in the Northern Territory by Dr. Gl-ifiiths Taylor, which Have been published in the Australian Year Book, form a useful correetive’:t'o the usual vague generalisations, but the Imperial aspect of The danger involved in leaving this immense areag unpeopled dem-ands far closer scient-igfic sféudy than it has yet received. _

Professor Gregory ’s contention that huge artesian supplies exist in the neighbourhood of Lake Eyre qualifies Mr Taylor’s conclusion concerning -the aridity of Central Wes.t Australia}

“Some experts argue that the north. ern coastal :belt would Suppollt,' 9, popu_ latizon equal to that of Java,” says the Times. “We do not believe that a mu. lion of gvhites would ever settle "in North Australia, but it is quite unlikely that every races can ever settle there in large numbers. “Meanwhile .the latest figures of the metropolitan p-opillations compared with those of the-€ountl'y4_ are the ma] blot on the picture of The rich temperate regions :of Australia.