REPLY TO CRITICISM OF AUSTRALIA
HON. A. L. D. ERASER'S RECENT STRICTURES. Melbourne, July 17. Tho Acting-Prime Minister, Mr. W. A. i Watt, replying to the cabled criticism of • Australia by the lion. A. L. D. Eraser, | of tho Now Zealand Legislative Council, , j states that only a small section hero is ' : disloyal. 'Ho thinks ■ tho drawback of ; all politicians is a tendency to label j thoir opponents with opprobrious epi- j thets.—Press Assn. " . > [On his return last month from a visit j to Australia, tho Hon. A. L. D. Eraser, i in an interview, jnado soino comment on i affairs in Australia. Ho declared that, . though recruiting was at a low ebb, tho pcoplo attended the raco, meetings in ' ;.i their thousands. 'A great deterrent to recruiting was the disloyal utterances . j made by numbers of trades unious . j orators in tho Domain on Sundays,' but ; tho Federal ami Stato Governments took no action. According ;to-Mr. Eraser tho "j genesis of the trouble was to be found in ; tho vacillating, 'incompetence of Mr, j Hughes,] ' |
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 257, 18 July 1918, Page 5
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176REPLY TO CRITICISM OF AUSTRALIA Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 257, 18 July 1918, Page 5
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