Foundation Day Festivities: Trade's Future Prospects: Ranges Ablaze: Transport Solution:
Hope for the North: Austra-lion Made Aeroplanes: The Immigration Question Fae Ov OWN
Seourne, Feb, 3.
On Jantary 26 the annexation of Australia on behalf of the British, Crown was eclehrated in 1788, this day. is now a proclaim "di Public Holiday throughout. tie wealth, aid the Australian behind Amerien in speed of pro: gress as a miition, And, [man who should know, hi ministerial positions which gave him inside information on many. of Jour altairs during his polities career, which is ux old us the ing of Phillips' commission, for the first time since its issu and amplification, to the people he had brought with him in the st Pleet to Australia, Luncheons were hioki Uy the Association throughout Australia this yea. and exhibitions of Australia menufaetures, and raw products were held in the capital citivr. The exhibits of most interest, were these witch shawed the various stages of production of steel, ant metal manufactured goods," and there, of the Lincoln Knitting, Mills, of the processes of woven wool, silk and wool and other textiles of that nature, At the festal board of the more social festivities patriotic speeches were the order of the day, and some stress was laid by the speak-all public men" mostly" of political importsnee, on the completion of Australia's first 25 youre fas a Commonweslth. Sir Littleton Green gave the members of the Melbourne brawh of the ANA. an interesting resume of the ings of the nation since its ception at Federation, these 25. y la evened her popu people, and the rca of land und:
ation by 000,000 acres, The grazing industries had increased in larger proportion, and the edu tional facilities nearly threefold While the ¥ owned propery had increased by 20 per oont, tenants by 12 por cent.; owne gaining ground exceedingly in the Jast five years, Since the fxn upon which Sir Littleton founded his statements were compiled, st more recent publication of th" population total shows the country to have parsed Ure 6,000,000 mark yo that with some necessary tight:
sup of the methods of the gration departments; and th ce-operation of the States whicn the Commonwealth in connexion with the migrant agreement with Great Britains the more equal rottlement of the continent Howly Int surely" coming nearer to an adequate population mark.
The Immigrant Question There are before the Prime Min ister, Mr. Bruce, at the mornest proposals from taroc of the States dealing with arrangements for the distribution of, immigrants. their areas. The Western Aust During his. gro years she Jived in the atmosphere of patties life of the' counter, father having been associated wit) State affairs as a member for Par-lament for Queenstand away backs in 1862, and in which his father; {was Speaker of the Assembly from 1863 {0 1888, as the son is now Speaker of the House of Re presentatives i senior Parliament of Australia. Sir Littleton is, himself, an object lesson of the progress which can be achieved 'a family in Australia, His fathe starting without influence personality and brains, both bequeathed as an inheritance to This son, dedicated them to the further ing' of the country and its peo dying in harness, 1 to be carried honours and aypreci to Sir Littleton in this generation are felt by the country to be cognition of two lives' work. With such sons, Australia enn har: retrograde, and with such opp tunities "a high percentage of migrants can hardly fail. So, look forward to the next 25 years with the most sanguine hopes. in our hearts, Trade Proposals The total overseas trade of other countries be-triking an annns eof from 1896-1900, was £74,857,000: The year 1924-25 fire jus "with fourfold this amount of trade value and some £20,000,000 ito spare, So much for Austr Progress during the last 25. years [It is now proposed to make the year 1925 one of substantial de Yelopment. The Commonwealth Parliament has already had before ita bill dealing with the establishment of the power alcohol plant North Queensland Sugar Mill onning company, and the bountice which the Convmonwealth propose to give on crops producing this commodity, outside of the actus! sugar cane, There are also proposals for establishment of a paper pulp industry, and manufacture of newsprint. ' The spinning of cotton yarn has been operating in New South without any outside help. [In February 1925 the Tariff Board leon sidered proposals as to som? form of customs protection, for the reports ian government has a eompreh ted aad aes given to the pio ate awa 2 the ix one of the States with the expected further films will be largest unsettled areas, and whom luced in Australia, of the same.
was feared would, in conse-if not a better standard than that tauence of statements made by some teen here last year when Louise the members of the Labout Lovely screened an all. Australian Government there, stand aloof from. film, "Jewelled Nights" featuriay migration schemes, is of Tasman 'The Prime Minister is now dustries in their early infancy, optimistic of coming to. satisfac. aiding of which has' been tory terms with all States at no brought up before the House are very distant date, The Queens-Dorcom, millet, snd rice, which have Tand government had been reportjhicen success! tested on_ the unfavourable in its attitude: Murray irvine areas. While' to the schemes, but recent reports outside of the Government, the from Brisbane' say that younger Chambers of Menafacturers immigrants are booked for employ-donating £15,000 to be expended on, ment long before they arrive -in the found ime of an Jnstuitute of the north, and the supply is in-Industry to enable the adequate (0 reet the demand from owing generation to receive the country districts, struction at the Melbourne Univee The Government will, therefore, id it hard to stand against pub-opinion, and inclination. Ever commercial schemes of industry, Over and above the more to the cazval on-touker thi bs the Commonweslth Government placed ecrtsin sums of money, and laboratory conve Littleton Gros disposal of Dr. when he seys he has the greatest very like hopes that Australia will not
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