A JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION.

Grey River Argus, 24 April 1911, Page 6

A JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION.

♦ (By Electric Telegraph — Copyright.; (Red 21.10 a.m.) SYDNEY. April 23. A representative gathering of pressmen, decided to form a. New South Wales branch" of the Australian Journalists Association. The" officials, writers and artists union strangly opposed on the ground that the central committee in Meelbourne had already names of over sixty who had Intimated they were intending- members.

Although most of the world's coffee is grown in South America, yet in no country ■is it so dear as in Argen- • tina, for the simple reason that only foreigners ask for it. The natives of Argentina drink mate, or Paraguay tea, as it is sometimes called. Among the working classes this is the universal drink. Instead of coffee after dinner, many Argentine housekeepers serve a basin of soup, which guests from abroad find some difficulty in swallowing. Efforts have been made to popularise mate in Europe, but these have never been successful. There is a cafe in Paris where Argentine visitors can obtain their national drink. But mate in London has so far eluded the searcher.