AUSTRALIA DAY

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 103, 26 January 1943, Page 4

AUSTRALIA DAY

Trade Commissioner’s Message The following statement has been received from the Acting Australian .trade Commissioner. Mr. J. L. Menzies, in connexion with the anniversary of Austiatiu "?tTs interesting to record that in connexion with the early discovery ol Australia, a French writer, long bclpre tlu commencement of British said of Australia that it was becomni ? a powerful Empire. This remark may not have been literally true at that tunc, but it is true today. In the course ol i s 150 years of settlement; Australia has made'rapid progress. It is a tar ei.Y ioi Hie days of the mining towns and tl't few scattered sheep runs to the Australia of today. Australia is not only e”!-''"'-' 1 in almost all forms ot agrieultuie, but has established thriving and efficient secondary industries based on e modem and np-to-date iron and steel nidus ll .'- ' -. can look back with pride fill 100 jcats ot notable achievements. M e look forward to an even greater future when nations Cl "But°we "think also of the part which Australia is playing in world affairs todav. and specially of her sons who art fighting side by side with the representatives of the Allied Nations in Hie „ieat battle for freedom, and their efforts will not be relaxed till victory > s Australian servicemen in all world salute their New Zealand coiniadcs in arms. We—Australians and New Zealanders—are bred from the same stock, we have the same aspirations, v\e ha'<no territorial ambitions; we are both imbued with a strong love of country Let us march forward together, not only as blood brothers, but as kinsfolk m the truest sense of tlie term. ’