PEOPLING THE COLONIES.
Australia has four millions where there is room for forty; New Zealand barely a million where ten millions might work and live in comfort and abundance. It is our bounden duty to the Empire, says the Auckland "Herald," our necessary duty to the world, our wisest duty to ourselves, to do our utmost to alter this unnatural condition of things. For while we are debating the pros and cons of encouraging British immigration, discussing the tenures of loskedup lands, arguing over the fostering of local industries, we are steadily drawing nearer to the time when neither the might of England, nor the might'of America, nor the might .of all Western civilisation will be able to uphold our exclusion laws, unless we faithfully discharge the duty which possession imposes upon us.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 2993, 18 September 1908, Page 4
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133PEOPLING THE COLONIES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 2993, 18 September 1908, Page 4
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