CONTENTED JAVANESE
"On my motor four of Java I witnessed a world paradox —millions of people who are regarded as living below Ithe bread line apparently serenely happy and content, working close to Nature and entirely oblivious of progress in. other lands,” said Mr. J. R. Kirk, of To Marua, Upper Hull, who returned to Wellington, this week after a trip to the East, where lie spent the winter months. Mr. Kirk said the people of Java were living peacefully and not worrying about the outer world, while in Europe millions were .being spent on dc f ens ive a rmaments.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20030, 31 August 1939, Page 3
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101CONTENTED JAVANESE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20030, 31 August 1939, Page 3
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