WE WANT PEOPLE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3418, 9 January 1912, Page 3

WE WANT PEOPLE.

ADVERTISEMENT BEFORE DE- •« i/. ; ■ /FENCE, t ; AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT-iMUST. . ! " ■ GET 'A HUSTLE ON. " The Australian Government' does’- not ]’ advertise .enough in England and Europe, «mhMil M Ramacciotti, when ho]-, was met on the Malwa on his return to? A Sydney "from England. His observa- 1 ti'ons- have-eoiivinced hind he added,,' that there are several Australian firms spending more money advertising their businesses than the Australian Government is in advertising the island continent abroad. . /; ‘T kept my eyes open,” he went on, .‘‘for some indication of our ment’s enterprisej and only once during mv travels in different parts of Great Britain did I have the pleasure of beholding anything which spoke of < home. That was a poster, high up. under a; railway bridge in Glasgow,. . 1 which illustrated some of the leading Australian cities. '' " a -.“These advertisements are calculated to increase our population, and Lain, sure that a bolder policy should be pursued j 1 .There are no doubt many other true Australians who hold the same 'opinion as I do, that it would be better! ;td spend large- sums' -of j money m| all white countries of the world advertising than; to djevote it to; the, construction of a navy. It seem g to ( me tlmt- tliß only way Australia. oaiLf bo--, come a great nation ouickly is to;; ad-, vertise extensively. The few warships? that five million people can pay | fori would not suffice to protect Tasmania’, : let alone Australia. It- is the BritishGovernment’s place to protect one of her greatest assets and Austraha s place t-o people it. ] “The immigration methods are not dill; that is iequired now. At present we rriye encouragement to farm hands .only. Why not encourage artisans? ’Great Britain is overflowing with Unemployed of practically all trades, while nearly every employerditi Australia is cUying';.out,-for.-mQfe ; aa?or. Foreign inimigrah.ts r because'.'! ddiMfft. we can }>opulate' thdhOpnimpnwAftlth with people from oiir; : 3b.wh nationality. Foreigners would ndt;hej.here, yerydpuß before theywould realise tbatjbo to tJioii interest btdV become A naturalised, although it- ymuld he mheossary fo acquain't 1 1 1 ombpL.ibeCmeans-jthw would have to a dop tssp alt, enddYLJhder the present ststqm" E'pbhsidor^hatcwc are not bringing /insufficient -females, and if this continues very Australia will find herself in a nice plight. Another'Thing which might-be tried is to iuduc(y©u&v|> arrivals to lisli newspapers, telling their lmpres--sionf and'details of settlement. lam certain, it would be & cheap and lucra- , tive^qdvertisement 'j-- I }. | :