The Rise Of Australasia

Chapter 826 - 616: Franco-Australian Alliance_3

Of course, neither Arthur nor the government had intended to instantly turn all these colonies into Native Land.

After all, nativization isn’t just a title, it means building up various aspects of a colony to resemble Native Land.

That requires a population to match, a considerable level of Industry and Agriculture, a large amount of supplies and effort, and so on.

Over the past four years, what the government most valued and vigorously pursued in terms of nativization was naturally the New Guinea Colony.

By land scale, the territory of the New Guinea Colony does not fall short compared to any state, even considering it as a state might seem extravagant.@@@@

But currently, with New Guinea’s population just breaking eight hundred thousand, it cannot support too many administrative divisions.

Currently, the New Guinea Colony has Three Major Cities, which are actually the former capitals during the tripartite rule.

As the first region controlled by Australasia, Moritzby Port, the former capital of the Australian New Guinea Colony, is now the largest city in the New Guinea Colony and the only city with a population exceeding 250,000.

Apart from that, there are HerbertsHera and Modovi, two cities with populations that have broken the hundred thousand mark.

In the following days, Arthur successively visited Kerema, Baimuru, Lae, Arawa, Wan, and other regions; he even went to HerbertsHera on New Britain and Kavieng on New Ireland Island. The inspection results were not much different from Moritzby Port; the nativization construction of these cities was fairly successful.

This also represented a fact, after the recent transformation of Dili into a direct-controlled state, the time for the New Guinea Colony to become the New Guinea directly controlled state was not far off.

Compared to the Colony’s immigrants, these permanent residents of New Guinea certainly preferred to become part of a Native Land city, that is, the population of a direct-controlled state.

Because the Welfare Policy of a Native Land city is definitely better than that of a colony, with access to basic infrastructure and various transportation conveniences that colonial cities cannot experience.

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After affirming the deeds of Governor John in New Guinea, Arthur embarked on the journey back to Sydney.

Since the nativization work of New Guinea was going well, the process of renaming New Guinea Colony to the New Guinea directly controlled state could be accelerated.

After all, if war broke out, there certainly would not be much time left to continue the nativization work of the colonies.

This also meant that if the nativization of the colonies could not be completed before the onset of the war, it would definitely face obstacles from other nations, including the United States, if one attempts to continue post-war.

Moreover, after the nativization of the colonies, the economic development of these cities would also accelerate. If The Great Depression still erupted, this would benefit Australasia to better withstand the economic crisis and reduce the damage the crisis brought to the country.