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Mr. Menzies Envisions An
Industrial Australia
MELBOURNE, February 22.
Australia must either double its
population during the next 20 years
or "disappear." according to Mr
Menzies, MHR. He told members
of the Australian Industries Pro
! tection League today that develop-
Iment of manufacture was the only
I real hope of improving the vital j
population problem.
Australia had resources crying
aloud to be developed, he said
Plenty of people would come here
from Britain once they were satis
fied that they would find life and
living, and Australia must create
those conditions. The Australian
people had seen during this war
i that the manufacturing industry
had been our sheet anchor. i
The ?'drift to the city" meant
nothing to him. Mr. Menzies said,
unless it involved slum aggrega
tion. Thousands had come from'
rural industry which never had
paid a decent wage, and had dis
covered what it was to live in the
comforts of a metropolitan suburb'
on a decent wage. He did not think j
they would be packing up then
traps and going back to the coun-
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