RIVALRY
CANADA AND AUSTRALIA AS FIELDS FOR IMMIGRATION (Received August 30, 9.55 a.m.) VANCOUVER, August 29.
The Hon. John Grecly Jenkins, who was a member of several South Australian Ministries, and from 1905 to 1908 Agent-General for that State, is on his way to tire International Conference of Chambers of Commerce at Boston.
Interviewed here, he said Australia would never be able to compete with Canada for immigrants. Canada's great advantage was its relative nearness to Britain, and consequent cheap pasisago rates. Mr Jenkins suggested that there was much force in tho sentimental objection to the difficulty of returning to tho Homo Land from Australia for many years. Immigrants, preferred Canart!' where, they were within easy reach of England—for their holidays.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10708, 31 August 1912, Page 5
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121RIVALRY Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10708, 31 August 1912, Page 5
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