CHRISTMAS AND AN EMPTY CONTINENT.
Christmas is celebrated in Australia by a population representing a fraction of that which the country could support and prosper. It passes in older countries among such numbers that comparatively only very few can afford to recognise the season as anything but an opportunity for th.. more fortunate classes to make holiday. "What a great thing it would be for them and for us, and for the Commonwealth, and for the white races," remarks tfie Sydney "Daily Telegraph." "if those poorer paoples of the overcrowded countries could be transplanted in numbers to Australia! We have a continent waiting to be occupied, they have the industry and the needs that could be satisfied by occupying the continent. The conjunction would not only be beneficial in that way. It would increase that colonial production of food which has already given the British labourer more frequent and cheaper bread, butter, and meat than he could have had otherwise. And it would very powerfully help to augment the numbers of the white peoples, and so reinforce them against a possible Armageddon of the colours, if not to avert it."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3087, 8 January 1909, Page 4
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190CHRISTMAS AND AN EMPTY CONTINENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3087, 8 January 1909, Page 4
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