PRO^^EEDIXGS OF SECTION F. 601 



to be avoided is the overstrung, exuberant, active, good-all-round 

 ' admirable Crichton,' who burns the candle at both ends .... 

 a tropical climate does, undoubtedly, ' get on the nerves,' .... 

 while the victim of any of the neuroses is generally unfit for work or 

 residence in hot climates .... This prohibition applies also to 

 the epileptic — even if only suffering from 'petit mal. Likewise the man 

 of bibulous habits is most unsuitable. The slave of the pipe and the 

 cigarette are recommended to stay at home." 



I wonder how much care is taken by the Agents- General for the 

 Commonwealth States in London to explain to intending emigrants 

 climatic differences between the tropical, sub-tropical, and temperate 

 zones of Australia. 



About the year 1868 a company advertised the wonderful capa- 

 bilities of a district in Brazil for the growth of coffee and sugar. Some 

 hundreds of Englishmen and their families were induced to emigrate 

 thither. Their numbers were gradually reduced to nominal dimensions 

 by disease and death, traceable to the climate. After years had passed, 

 accounts appeared in the newspapers of the trials, privations, and 

 deaths of another group which had been tempted to emigrate from 

 Wales to the same district, and succumbed to fatal climatic influences. 

 Sir Charles Bruce, a retired ex-colonial governor of varied tropical 

 experience, in a paper which he read before the Eoyal Colonial Institute, 

 in March, 1905, on " Crown Colonies and Places," is most explicit in 

 enunciating his views on the labor suitable for hot latitudes. He says 

 — " In temperate regions, where the white man could work under the 

 same conditions as in Europe, he has himself replaced the native . . . 

 In our tropical colonies it is otherwise. Experience has proved that 

 their resources cannot he developed by the manual labor of the ivhite 

 man." 



Sir George Le Hunte, the present Governor of South Austraha, 

 has had considerable experience of the tropics as the representative of 

 his Sovereign in Fiji, the West Indies, and the Mauritius. Being 

 familiar with tropical conditions in these British settlements, His 

 Excellency was deputed by the South Australian Government to visit 

 the Northern Territory and report on the kind of labor most suitable 

 for its effective development, and he did not hesitate to coincide with 

 all having a scientific and practical knowledge of the subject. Not 

 only did he pronounce colored labor in that region and in all corres- 

 ponding latitudes in Australia to be indispensable : he also affirmed, 

 in reply to the baseless objection of white trades unionists, that such 

 labor " would not compete with the corresponding class of white labor, 

 but would afford a large field for the employment of white-skinned 

 supervision and management." 



Mr. H. Y. L. Brown, the Government Geologist of South Australia 

 whose professional duties lately necessitated a lengthened residence 

 in the .«ame Territory, addressed a reporter of the Adelaide Register 

 upon his return in the following words : — " The place is going down 

 hill fast. Chinamen are being drained out of the country, and no one 



