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THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1949.

WANTED IN AUSTRALIA : PEOPLE, PEOPLE, PEOPLE

spite

In solle of the current strike By A Special Correspondent

Front Tax."

"Oxford Group Not Excip But ddist let's jaccent- tho: fact

please.

According to a rather peoyed

But all Australians agree that har first need is plople, and thi and general chinos in Australia.

question is not a politled one. that country has not slackeried

conalder To one who might one of its most important

The Australia amplays in imber fellemigration to Australia, there are a serious Inboar shortage.

continuous employ several things

hat he, should Government projects-planned Australian Minister for Labouring creates

said last May ment for 40 carpenters. They know about the country. (Mr. Holloway)

in hor migration.

Astralia's climate Australia needs people

vacant estimate also that such migrants de that there were 114.000 the Australian jobs in the country, sperately, and

greatest recommendation. Except they employ on producing cement, Government will bring 1,000,000 But even 114,000 vacant jobsites, galvanized, iron, ine, sewer for Tasmania, Australia's climate gum, I had dinner with last night, migrants to her country in slie do not exhaust the requiremente pipes, bricks and so on will pro generally hat something in com-it is increasingly doubt wo next three years.

for her national lalkur market. duce enough materials in his two mon with California's. The Island de taxpayers com continue to govemment in tha support the This means that in one great Australia

she years of work to build cight State of Taemanis has frequent style to which it has become ast will. Increase might just about break even with houses. On that basis, the working snowfalls during the winter. customed." jump, Australla

her population by almost, one- tite

de migrants won't add to the housi Immediate day-to-day

More Sports seventh one of the greatest plan-mand for the goods and services Problem they are doing a great

den) to solve it.

Australians participate more in ned migrations in history,

of her people.

In spite of the strong and they have on international

ties active sports than Americans. which bind

Australia England, to

Such a vast movement population has all the colour, vitality and pioneering spirit of the 19th century, when graad from all over tho world were streaming into America to make

By far, the greater percentage of migrants coming to Australia are Europeans, but Australia also wants Americans and Carp- dians, for her

with conthient, about the same land mass as the United States, has less than the population of New York. Popula tion experts say that Australia should have at least 40,000,000; sho has 7,500,000,

can fill them

Greatest Obstacle

ro-

T

are inadequately] More than half the total pppulą, į vlowed the Dean of the Graduate the dame of Canadian-Bort: Lórd

action of

. Do you blame them? A

The Synthetic Democrat

Akihito of: 3gpons Makes like an American. Parts his Hair..

Part

Of course, what Macnta Ban The greatest obstrele to the Australia is a foreign country,pistation in tennis, and England doesn't seem to realise is, that if has learned to her sorrow that you restrict the Nipple“ popula- acceptance of larger numbers of with her own way, of life.

guts is Autralia's housing

In recent month I have talked Australian cricketer's are masters, ton by clinical methods, where in- Australian-rules foot the next generation of world. problem. During the war years, with hundreds of migrants, Bri-Cricket,

German bil, soccer all have tremendous conquerors to come" from? American and Displaced followings, and surflug in one of a fresh start in the New World us in most countries, house build-ish,

From 1840-50 Aanerice stepped ing was virtually at a standstill. Scotch,

Persons of doxon' Australia's powerful Pers Recently,

different Australia's thousands of beaches (Senior) wish to sincerely

up her population by 1,427,337 friends

is the national pastime of the

According to A contemporary thank their many

Irum migration-an increase of unions and. Returned Servicemen's nationalities

the Govern- tu

SRITIO that before they for the very

people. and relatives

23 per cent.

t. But in three years, Leagues protested

mont against the building of to Australia, Taw of them had"

But, to the prospective ind- yesterday: "Conservatives today:

criticised the Hofne Secrety Rind expresions of sympathy

Australia will increase her popu

migraat hopies until any idea of the size of AUS additional suring their recent bercavelation by about 14

Australia and her prificipal cities, grant, Australia has more to offer air. Chuter Ede, for meftionis 14. per cont. Jiccom- The

"more than 1,000,000 the and for

than sports and climate. I inter rate and

whu

Beaverbrook during undesirable panying floral tributes.

tralians housed are..

ure supplied with

Australia live in ve School, University of Notre Dame people. ssion on the deportation principal constill des Sydney (Rev. Dr. Phillip S. Moore) when of a House of Commons dised commodation.

and Government re. Melbourne, Adelaide, Ferth However, the

be visited Australia last Dectin- torted that migrants will help to Brisbane! solve, rather than

increase the I also discovered that some of ber. Ile told me that Australian

the migrants expected to find al

primary education was from one to two years in advance of nation's housing shortage.

The Minister for Immigration slow-moving "colonial" life, rat (Mir Arthur Calwelly said: "If her

primary education in the United backward; leburely. and

States, and that the Australla we should wait until we nye built parochial.

equat to an honies for all intending migrants,

Many American and English- BA degree was and for all Australians, then we men came to Australia with the American M.A. degree.

life in Australia is Family migrants idea of "teaching Australians". should never get the

how to h

to do things, and they were traditionally English, with gen Government spokesmen, to "jus The Government pointed out shaken when they found a well-erally much more stern discipline tify to the world our ponnession that 47 per cent of migrants who developed, modern agricultural of children than is the custom in

America. labour and industrial community. two-years of a vast, wealthy, but sparsely underlook

Among the greatest sins Australia is contract with the Australian settled continent.”

Some were disappointed to find

their view, are of

restricted charge of also encouraging migration to Government in exchange for free

are en 10 hour week, high taxation, Australià, from a mundane point Prosecuting

Australia, insure her security against passage to

economy, and few pos the evasion,

the more than one-thousand mil-gazed in work which will hijo | sibilities; of becomity I found at alleged

rich easily, drinking hours public bars close

Their 4 p.m.

"suspended the Crown Counsel, Mr. Hooton,

in her Noar and Australia's houring shortage De- were pleasantly surprised at' the| animation" Sundays, no picture warned that convictions in

Australia is one of the fowpartment of Labour and National comparative case with which they shows and public entertainment gambling. future would involve

on horse aul kers Most gambling in living. only heavy fines but also countries in the world that has Service say that every migrant could find jobs and make a decent and Australia's vice,

Skilled industrial workers especially, are happy about Aus dog racing, and the State-round imprisonment. - Counsel add-

tralia's high standard of living lotteries which offer first prizes and powerful trade unione.

up to 121,500.

Politkally, Australia in The keynote of the Australian effort in the opening up and Federation of six States, and has rediscovering

of their country framed her constitution after the through agricultura hydro-electric schemes,

Those of us who are smart- ing under the last payment of income tax, the extraction of which seems to afford us little be fit except the con- templation of luxury flats provided by our money for the enjoyment of public ser- vants, may take some hope from a statement made yes terday,

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tax

not

inten-

under-

the

ed. with probably tional naivete and statement, that it was pos- sible that up to now public were not income-tax- conscious. He hoped that the people would heed this statement, and avoid break- ing the law in future.

Australia is undertaking this tremendous immigration program me, in the wards of one of her

kelp

Hon Asiatica Far North.

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Prosperity Returns To Trieste

The

By DAVID LEE

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However

projects a Senate and a

of

projeds. American constitution. There in House of Repra- the to combat the ravages of drought sentatives. The leader of

flood.

invariably majority party is Hecondary industry. that

and

a

and develop one clected Prime Minister, and the

лго

And looks thb

But what hides ho in his heart? Bowing with impassive pati

To the Great Makata Sant Does the Democratle-Prince

know no godliko Sometimes

winco

Nor no secret urge to try Slaughtering like a Samurai?

"Amusement Park' Requisition-

ed for Army.”

Including What the buller saw?

"Students Fined.

"Swan in

servoir."

Kowloon Tani Re-

That, one hopes, will be their- swim song.

one Sunday realises 20 years ago Aus- Governor-General represents the A visiting parson post-war Communist the six now ships-on of which tralia could not build a car engine King. Voting is compulsory, and put on a long, dreich service, and

make 25,000-ton trans-Atlantic or

mass-p produced sult, their politics

rough and after the Benediction the contre- gation was sintlled to hear threa stronghold of Trieste is today well inn

blasts of wind and is making s Motors factory and on the road to recovery, proving liner-sing above the housetous and now she has her own General, tumble.

Healthy People.

Idilaws, and were that Marshall Aid, are real,

lifu. to Europe

These ships are all being built completely Australian'nüb car

Immediately when properly used, is a

ERP aid, but already the and that entire wool

Since the war ended, this pocket

penny

Australians

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healthy Immedia

from the organs.

their all

on

e

that Trieste en again peacefully spinning Factorles have been pesuis allenavere i helter March from "Saul Dend

country, and. foreign shipping circles, and the develops.

Aftor

the war

น

Polley

Lizzie

Monroe, the leading alto, ough - courage", afterwifdə

state has faced-on a small scale build ships without Communist transported from England, one aney, equal to Americans and some

to ask! Mrs. Stewart of the a larger interference is getting around in gets an indication of the rapid discasos, hidh as smallpox, art had enough

ment of Australia's in not known to the country. all the problems of

iontel what it was all about Principally, Australia

said Mrs, S., The was that lang West European

However, with the "Iron Curtain" a three- ftrat fuw foreign orders are now dustrial

not migrants who are in good health, wit that your Barton, an’"I "kent buyride away, a few more arriving.

her doors as wide as the preferably between 20 and 35

his landlady, Jemima Lumsden, besides.

Trieste's one nigration figures, suggest. Her years of age, unless married or put her lodgers dirnar, on the Millions of ERP dollars have modern port was too long as Restricted

an ex-Serviceman, mentally sound, brought economic relief to Trieste, wie is de war. The passed during

in turn, resulted in idle cranes and equipment. 18 which,

endorsed and knowledge of some trade ored to get maain back Communist defeat at The polls Iron Curtain" countries boycot by all the major political parties profession. The Australian Gov- recently. In the first six months ted the port

once called "front

the Labour Party, Coflitry | ernment ulters ex-Servicemen who

meet these qualifications, on Made To" Fitt Under the restriction of this

(Orders have been, given for White Aus- anunta to £30. Fares to Aus-l'new U.S, polity, for Ching!)". Austyl has firmly

vary from £60 to £160 by resolutely shut the door

to Heroes and Asiatics in fact, But, if you decide that you Australia really whints only ink would like to live in Australia, grants of white parentage, pre- do not go with any false hopes Northern European that you would be exempt from ferably of origin..

the usual responsibilities and pro blems of every-day living.

Huli 1901, good character, no police record,lable at one sharp, så 1. listˇddel-

of this year there has been a 20 and back, dour of Eut this the Party, and Liberal Parts "slated passage" which usually!

per cent drop in the Free Terri- tory's unemployed.

In the past amount of trattic passing through high the bustling port has broken att policy.

records for the last 35 years, as ships queue up for berth-space. Much of the argues discharged are ERP supplies, but the ton

age, of hard commercial cargous is increasing daily,

where

called the...

Attaboy, attaboy, Acheson, man

Cook up a Policy. Put outin Blant

This is all very fair, and we have no doubt that the Commissioner of Inland Re- venue and his department echo Mr.

senti- Hooton's ments. It is not our-pro- vince to read their minds, but the rest of us who have an inkling of the "true posi- tion, are not going to throw our hats in the air or look forward to several million dollars of unexpected con tributions pouring into the treasury from

conscience stricken businessmen.

The facts are brutally sim- ple. Salary earners above certain levels, large corpora- tions who keep correct books, and smaller firms of high integrity who will not stoop to dishonest tactics, pay not only their own full share of tax bul a lot more. They have to shoulder the burden of administration for a great

almost certain to And employ many clever merchants not Church to the seafront would not trade, natural weaith of Central denies that the "White" us a potential migrant, you are

ment, a

good life for yourself and y, a good time. a few of whom have been out of plate In Paris. Shin- European countries, has been re-tralia Pulley" is based on pure

tertain family and, the senêc of Tooling Triunto's through

timber they restrict drastically known to boast, us they step in new Itailan cars are every-born with 60,000 tons of its pass raclat prejudices; they claim that

whero, especially the new mouthing

country because

of a young nation that is Just beginning to teel (ts muscles. into their large American organ front model of Italy's wharts in the last three months. nigrants to their

With its unemployed, Triose of economic reasons. cars to return to comfortable popular baby car, the Fist "Mic-

Asiatle and Pacific.coun- Once you get to "Australs Bul

be entirely Up to homes, that they have never key Mouse, which runs 45 miles axperiences the same problem antries have, daring the past two your future will

other West European countries,

refused" to "accept this ex-you. paid income tax and intend to a gallon.

Dally, Since the end of the war until The lead of the family no long

newtapapers to maintain

nation that they never will.

recently, the shipyards, where er earns sufficient

from Manila 20 Calcutte, from ataly's pre-war bluegiband Athis family at today's high prices from

Singapore to Hong Kong, give had been Consequently, female members of lantic liners were

Polley the White, Australja" bafors the war Australians in Foretku countries lacked the family who confidence in shipyards aften stayed at home, now look for inl At a time work. Half at Trieste's unem no paralyzed for weekd by Communist-inspired, strikes. ployed today are women.

Difficult To Believe Today the poopis of Triesto

Prices, although still (steak and butter, cost around six shillings a' pound), have at least remained steady in shops wh everything is now on the ratlon, A survey of shopkeepery conduct ed this work shows that sales

The "Iron Curtain" boycott in 10 per cent, expecially in. clothing and household effects. crumbling. These countries love | No Prejudices

The Sunday morning fashion found that they must still import

The Australian Goverment The timber SL from

Anthony's and expert to live. parade

up

Their viewpoint may be understandable. Nobody likes to part with his, moneyIdle to apparently wasteful gov ernments, and in Hong Kong the tax in any case is still an innovation. The Chinese trader who has lived here

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newspaper

recently nominated Imintgration

Cell et Minister the New Industries

1919 of least l Now Industries In which womci th face of the

established. A cigarette factory |· mained "reso}i unable to see why he should

And there should be (20 for one-and-six-pence), mest hu determ subsidise a foreign adminitsest tration, even if the stability quite a few of them, for time cannery and chametle factory will she ofic

shortly rise in a tax-frgo indas / quality of the of its rule does provide him is necessary to show up the trial zone which is being built on by He has

frauds now being practised. reclaimed awamp land in the port critice with the background for

The position, at a casual area.

WHY TA making profits

In the steel worker recently * Such disinclination is not glance, might seem hopeless; recopditioned blast furnace, cold can't bave i monrel

1945, was "rekindled.

Bightly or wrongly, The

for only a few years may be still and it difficult to believe that can easily be employed are to be criticism,

игра.

Asiatic

no

criminal, but when it comes but we think, not The new will product 90,000 tons of doubt that the Vint analority of

to carrying out a conscious, attitude of the department year-round system to escape gives rise to hope that they pig iron and 30,000 tons of stool Australians will fit to the hift

The port's oil refa" for thele, White" Aureill taxation, the financial juggler have seen, the obvious salu-th year.

Most of the ery. capable of processing some tion. puts himself outside the law

It is impossible to 500.000 tons of crude oll yearly, onde eleme and must take

check, every possible offend- the conse-

and twisted metal during the tralian Governmen quences if discovered. It is er. but let the skilled staff was reducqu to a mass of rubble predicted, Ironically, by no secret that very many concentrate for months if

fugo and mucce which actually is available war

Today, the refinery with freshly Asiatic, refugees who businesses keep two or more sets of books-one, complete necessary on a few suspect aluminium painted tanks"

ernment ly erroneous, being for the ed cases ignoring the rest squipment is working at 149 per of the

These are some of the results Play In Inland Revenue Department for the time baing. Then cant pre-war capacity.

This may be well known I get, as Mr. Hopión said could|of millions of Marshall Aid dotarily of the

this putket to the authorities, but we be done, a fine imposed of lars pumped into cannot entirely blame them $10,000, plus three times the state. Millions which are now 800, the p

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