AUSTRALIA.
REPATRIATION MATTERS. MEN 'lO RETURN WITHIN TWELVE MONTHS. Melbourne, Oan 23 At a conference oi Commonwealth .and State Ministers, Senator Millen stated that to date 70,000 men have returned from the front Of these seven per cent, expressed a desire to settle on the land. There are still 197.000 abroad, the great, bulk of whom will return within 12 months. He expressed the opinion that Australia is ripe for new sural industries. The Government was prepared to guarantee soldiers andjjcf.tlers in such industries a minimum price for tier.: ■P rodlice and provide work necessary to nandle the P Mr. Watt announced that the Federal Government will provide the States with the money necessary for reparation purposes at the ruling rate o£ interest, lie Commonwealth proposes to ust every means to stimulate new industries and i incourage the introduction oi capital I from abroad for developing rural or secondary industries.—Aus.-iS.A. CaNe ! Asul
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 January 1919, Page 5
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152AUSTRALIA. Taranaki Daily News, 24 January 1919, Page 5
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