AUSTRALIA AND IMMIGRATION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 18, 15 February 1909, Page 3

AUSTRALIA AND IMMIGRATION

) LuniJ NORTHCOTE'S VIEWS. i By Telegraph.—Press Association. London, February 12. ... In full acknowledgement of his seririces to the Empire, an address was presented to Lord Northcote at the Guildhall, Exeter. Lord Northcote, in responding at a luncheon to the toast of his health, said he hoped and believed that the authorities in Australia would do their utmost to ■ make land readily accessible for British emigrants having energy and "go." It was of primary importance to split up the cultivated lands as a first step to developing ojher industries. There was no demand m Australia for clerks, and no large demand for people establishing shops. One reason wliy he desired emigrants to proceed to the colonies instead of to America was that if Australia had twenty-five millions—andVshe could carry that and double 'without any difficulty—the nation's voice would be all the more potent in the nation's • councils. Another reason was that if Australa, Canada, South Africa, and other possessions were strong enough to undertake their own defence, the burden on the British taxpayer would diminish. Finally, he favoured such emigration because it would .voice the influence of Anglo-Saxonism, which stood for peaceful conquests in . commerce, supremacy in life and in the Irasiness world.