. Australia's greatest need : with an introductory note by the Archbishop of Brisbane. r the immigrant; theyhave encouraged the right kind of im-migrant to come, and upon his arrivalthey have taken every precaution toplant him suitably upon the land; theyhave founded an agricultural bank, inorder that advances may be made tosettlers during the early years of their newlife. The result is that the prosperity ofWest Australia, which was stimulated bygold, is now being fed by the more stableproducts of the soil: wheat, wool, butter,fruit. The south-west corner of the land,blessed by a beautiful cl
. Australia's greatest need : with an introductory note by the Archbishop of Brisbane. r the immigrant; theyhave encouraged the right kind of im-migrant to come, and upon his arrivalthey have taken every precaution toplant him suitably upon the land; theyhave founded an agricultural bank, inorder that advances may be made tosettlers during the early years of their newlife. The result is that the prosperity ofWest Australia, which was stimulated bygold, is now being fed by the more stableproducts of the soil: wheat, wool, butter,fruit. The south-west corner of the land,blessed by a beautiful climate and asufficient rainfall, is being quickly turnedinto a garden, and even land, which ashort time ago was considered unworkable,is now being dealt with for the coast of this south-west cornera belt of forest, three hundred and fiftymiles long and from fifty to a hundredmiles deep, provides many varieties oftimber trees, of which the iron-hard jarrahand the giant karri are the most country far to the north of Perthknown as the North-west Division is. The unfolding of the Land 41 being divided up into sheep and cattlestations, and the pioneer is still at work inthose regions, opening up the land forsubsequent generations. When I lookat these stations which I visited, andothers through which I passed, writesCaptain Challoner, one cannot help feel-ing a great glow of admiration for allthese hardy pioneers who, in the lastthirty years, and considerably less inmany cases, pushed their way into acountry that was not only unknown, butprobably the roughest in all Australia, ifnot in the world. They had to fight notonly against the treacherous native of theNorwest, but also against Nature in hermost uncompromising attitude. Some ofthem may be in receipt of fairly big in-comes from their great flocks of sheep,but they have earned every penny ofit by sheer grit and hard work—not foreight hours a day, but from daylight todark. And their women-folk, who le
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