AGRICULTURAL COMMISSION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 174, 2 November 1910, Page 5

AGRICULTURAL COMMISSION

SCOTCH FARMERS FOR AUSTRALIA? By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Melbourne, November 1. The Lord Mayor entertained the Scottish Agricultural Commissioners at a banquet yesterday. Mr. McGowcn said: "We want immigration of the right sort to develop the interior." He hoped successfully to compete with Canada regarding British immigrants. Sir C'arlow Martin, responding, said that thev were struck by the diversity Australia offered to the agricultural craftsman. It was quite evident that in Australia the forces of nature worked for man with extreme generosity. Ho was struck by the fact that the farmer bearing the heavy portion of the burden of the State had to send wheat to the world's markets, gett'm? the international price, but had to pay the Australian price, 40 to CO per cent, above the European price, for agricultural machinery. He hoped that the result of the report would be to send Scotchmen to Australia instead of to other countries that were not British. The time had arrived when they should have an organisation at Home regulating emigration, so as not to allow the country to be depleted of lier best blood.