ANTIPODES EXIST
Early View Confounded (By Air Arai! — Own Correspondent.} LOND'ON, June 30. When Mr. Walter Nash, Minister of Knance, visited Cambridge to receive tbo Lonorary dcgrco of Doctor of Law the uuivefsity orator, Mr. T. 11. (ilover St. John's Uollege, inade a short laudatory address in Latin. Of -Mr. Nash he said: — il 'They talk of there heing Antl podes,' says St. Augustine. '1 mean men on the opposite side of the world, where the sun rises when it sets here, their feet against ours.' And he adds, 'It is in no way to be believed.' Bnl tbe gentieman whom I now prosent to you will perhaps prove, against tlie €aintj ,thut there really aro islands in ihe Paeific, bearing a Dutch name, but inhabited by a British people, exeeedfngly happy isles, ' granted by Heaven's to tired mortality. ' '"They live there under British injHtutxons, ehoose a democratic Governjaent and send to us their Finqnec
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 148, 10 July 1937, Page 6
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