SUGAR INDUSTRY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10155, 29 December 1910, Page 5

SUGAR INDUSTRY

CABLE NEWS

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

BR. MAXWELL INTERVIEWED.

THE JAPANESE PERIL

(Received Last Night, 8.20 o'clock.) SYDNEY, December 28. Dr. Maxwell, of Queensland, is a passenger for the New Zealand by the Mahono, which sailed to-day. Interviewed respecting the sugar industry, Dr. Maxwell said he sympathized with the "white Australia"' idea, but it was not known even yet whether the industry could be left entirely to white labour —whether white labour could do it economically and satisfactorily. Touching the wider question of Australia's'relations with the coloured nations, he said that Australia's dan-ger-lay in the.East. Australia was the final outpost of the Pacific, the last great vacant country, and the eyes of the East were upon it. The Japanese were most to be feared. If they got any sort of a foothold in Northern Australia, they would never be able to drive them out. Thre was no.telling what the result would be. Every Japanese was every inch a soldier at heart. When in Hawaii, he learned that a large number of Japanese were there. They drilled every night ostensibly for amusement. They -had smuggled arms, too. Australia could not afford, said he, to take any risks with the Japanese. They would do the same here as in Hawaii. The doctor added that thousands of immigrants were coming to Australia from America; but in the meantime Australia was an empty land. The trouble may come sooner than was expected.