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read a further paper on the subjeef before the I {oval (Geo- 

 graphical Society in Melbourne, wherein he approves ;i 

 suggestion of Professor Osborne,' of Melbourne, that a 

 committee of experts should l.c appointed by the Federal 

 Government, or the Northern States, to make Investiga- 

 tions in Australia and Papua as to whether whites or 

 coloured persons under white supervision are best adapted 

 for the effective development of Australian resources. Now 

 we do not propose in this paper to quote from any utter- 

 ances of prominent Australian politicians on this subject, 

 as probably being deemed biassed. What then is the nature 

 of the testimony which can be adduced in favour of the 

 White Australia theory, apart from statistical facts such 

 as have already been referred to? 



In favour of White Australia.-Professor J. \V. Gregory 

 formerly of Melbourne University, has expressed the opinion 

 that there seems to be no adequate reason why Australia 

 should not in time all be occupied by white races. He has 

 devoted much thought and study to Australian conditions, 

 and in February last read a paper entitled "The Geo- 

 graphical Factors that control the development of Aus- 

 tralia." 2 "Travel and Exploration," a London monthly, 

 in its issue for April, contains an appreciative notice 

 referring specially to the circumstance that the author had 

 shewn that the increase of population in Australia, though 

 often popularly regarded as disappointingly low, had really 

 been unusually rapid. He compared it with progressive 

 and much belauded Canada, and pointed out that it took 

 the dominion two and a half centuries to reach the popu- 

 lation that Australia had secured in less than one. Then 

 on the burning question of coloured labour, as opposed to 

 white labour, in Queensland, Professor Gregory is con- 



' l'r<. feasor Osborne's paper on the" Problem of Tropical Colonisation," 

 appeared in the Argus of 10 April, 1909. 

 * The Geographical Journal, June 1910. 



