Conference Proceedings
The AusIMM Proceedings 1923
Conference Proceedings
The AusIMM Proceedings 1923
Vice-President's Address Defence of Australia and Relation Thereto of Primary and Secondary Industries
Mr GEPP said: "He proposed at the outset to draw attention to figures dealing with the population of the countries adjacent to Australia for the purpose of comparison with the population of the Commonwealth. He would deal more particularly with the areas of land surrounding the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Korea and Japan had a population of 18,000,000 ; China, 437,000,000 ; Persia, 9,000,000 ; Arabia, 5,000,000; South Africa, 129,000,000; Madagascar, 3,500,000 ; India, 251,000,000; Siam, Indo-China, and so forth, 16,225,000; Federated Malay States, 3,225,000; and, very significantly, Java, only four and three quarter days from Fremantle, over 50,000,000. From the map displayed an idea of the comparative areas of the countries mentioned and Australia could be gained. It was rather amazing that Australia, with its great potentialities, had only about 5,150,000 people. New Guinea had over 750,000 people; Hawaii, a mere speck, 250,000; New Zealand, 1,300,000; North America, 130,000,000; Central America, over 15,500,000; and South America, over 65,000,000. Colombo was only six days from Fremantle, and it was only nine days from Capetown to Albany, and eight days from Albany to Hobart. Proceeding, Mr. Gepp said "It was in 1911 and 1912 that I had the good fortune to spend nearly twelve months in Europe, and during the course of my work in England and Germany to have the oppprtunity of studying both the economical and political systems in some detail... I was in Berlin at the time of the visit of Lord Haldane, when an effort was made by the British Government to arrive at some under...
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