decision may be formulated without undue tardiness. 

 Unless Australians have definite and enlightened views 

 upon this problem, the mother country herself can hardly 

 be expected to grasp what we may wish should be done in 

 the interests of the federated States, to whom she has 

 entrusted the destinies of this immense continent, which a 

 late Governor General, Lord Northcote, recently stated 

 would easily support a population of 50 millions. The 

 subject for our investigation is, how can the tropical and 

 snh-tropieal areas which constitute a considerable propor- 

 tion of Australian territory, now under the control of a 

 white population, be effectively developed, and by whom? 

 If not l>v white people, do we need to consider the advis- 



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