AUSTRALIA: Rank Heresy

Snug in Canterbury, Very Rev. Dean Hewlett Johnson pursues puttering studies in everything from geology to Japan and from hydraulics to Australia. Last fortnight these studious ramblings got him into trouble. He had noticed that about 3,000 Australians inhabit the Commonwealth's Northern Territory which is nearly twice the size of the Empire of Japan. Since 90,000,000 Japanese are well known to be overcrowded in their Empire, it occurred to the Very Reverend Dean that the 3,000 Australians might make room for at least a few Japanese. Speaking diffidently at Guildford, puttering Dean...

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