LATE GERMAN COLONIES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3336, 14 November 1919, Page 6

LATE GERMAN COLONIES.

AUSTRALIA ’S OPPORTUNITY.

NE\V AVENUES OF TRADE.

SYDNEY, Nov. 5.

There has lately been :1 marked exodus of young Australians to the late German islands, and to other groups where 'Cr'el'man ilitel'oSfs are being displaced. In the your befomkthe war about 90 per cent of the t‘l':ldc of German New Guinea and the islands administered from Rabul wont direct to G-el?;nlany and pel'll9.ps five per cent came to Australia. ;\ustralia is enCdcavouring to revzrsc Ehe procelss.

The Government has not given details of the system -of administration it is proposed to adopt.’ under the mandate, but tll'e:assul'ance has been made that Australian enterprise will be encouraged in every possible way. It has been decided, for instance, to proclaim the Australian navigation Act so far as these territories" are coneerned. This means that no steamer will be allowed to trade with these territories unless it complies with Australian conditions in 1-egtard to the payment and condition of its crew.

,This will shut out the Dutch and Japanese liners, whose routes lie practically right through the region, and who are preparing to can-3=' off a large proportion of the trade to Japan and the Dufch East Indies. German New Guinea offers splendid opportunities to thosewlio grow cocoanutg, rubber, and similar things} and as soon as the form of administration is decided upon the Govermnent will seek to encourage settlement there by every possible means. Its policy so far

_as the present German settlers there are concrnecl, is still unknown. A commission of experts who went north and made a hurried examination of the lands which are the subject. of the mandate. has just returned, and’ is preparing a report. A hundred problems of administration will probably be settled according to the recommendations thus received. Every ship which now goes north is already crowded with young men eager to be the first‘ to get. what fiieliings are available. r '

Many Australians are’ going ofi to German East Africa -and the Malay Stafes,, where discharged soldiers'are getting all the opportunity fhey can ask for. In East Africa, particularly, the greatest possiblfe lenc%ourag}elfilent is being given to those Who wish to trade or plant, and it is said that there are in this region ‘abundant cliaonces of acquiring rapid wealth.