Report of the British Economic Mission to Australia

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Identifikator:: 179824683X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-182286

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report of the British Economic Mission to Australia

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: His Majesty's Stationery Office

Year of publication:: 7th January 1929

Scope:: 63 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part II. Main problems

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admirable Waite Institute at Adelaide. The sum of that know- ledge and of the knowledge gained in other parts of the world through other institutions, with which it will be the duty of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research to keep in touch, can be brought to bear on the practical problems of Australia’s development. Ch ifl eq ta oe De 11 88 nie 42. The possible opportunities for the results of scientific study in many fields, such as those of agriculture and dairying, with a view to the increase of productivity and the diminution of costs, are incapable of measurement; and we feel that the work of the Development and Migration Commission and of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, working, as we hope that these bodies will work, to one end, in ever closer co-operation with one another and with all the other institutions in Australia with which they have connections, will lead to that more intensive use of the already partially developed resources of Australia which we believe to be among Australia’s principal needs to-day. From that, rather than from specific schemes for new extensive development, we delieve that a natural stream of migration from Great Britain to Australia will flow, having its source in the increasing produc- iivity and consequent absorptive power of the Dominion. We would therefore suggest as a first step towards that end that, without prejudice to any specific schemes which the Development and Migration Commission may be able to recommend under the £34,000,000 Agreement as it now stands, the scope of that Agree- ment should be enlarged so as to permit of the funds made avail- able under it being used in other ways and, in particular, to assist the work of scientific research through subsidies to appropriate institutions, by facilitating large scale experiments and the like, without attaching to the expenditure of moneys for these purposes the condition that any specific proportionate number of migrants nust be received in Australia. 43. We also consider that the present time limit to the Agree- nent might be extended if in practice it should prove impossible within that limit to decide upon proper uses to which the whole of the funds made available under the Agreement should be put, ind that, assuming that the Agreement as amended works satis. ‘actorily, the British Government might consider the provision of further sums after the present provision is exhausted. Given ihat the British Government is disposed to continue to spend money to promote migration, and given that the prudent expendi- sure of such money 1s properly safeguarded, we are unable to suggest a better use which could be made of it. The protec- 44. But all measures designed for the increase of Australia’s iive tariff wealth production and power of absorbing new population tend oe the to be defeated if there are strong forces within her which operate Avia 80 to raise her costs of production that she cannot sell her products

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