“PEANUT POLITICIANS”

Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1928, Page 6

“PEANUT POLITICIANS”

‘BURNED ’ LABOUR AGITATORS. tMP&ESSIONS ‘OF AUSTRALIA. “. ‘ durned ’ Labour agitators and peanut politicans, Australia is riglit way for national bankruptcy, v 'said MrkJames Hood, a Los Angeles manufacturer, who arrived at Auckland from SydAey Jby the Marama this week. - “ 'God Almighty made Australia a doggone 'fine country,” said the visitor 're^e^tU£^]j^,^‘^but'man isfjdoing his gpl-* d&Vned best to put a monkey-wrench into the cog-wlieel. “ Sure, they’ve got a federation ot States over there,!’ continued the visitor..,.,,.. ‘‘They’re, simply a lot of glorified tribes'"(full of jealousy. The people seem to be divided ’between those out rtf work and others living on a Government pension- -Canberra is a-avhite services are being run at a loss, industry is prostrated, and strikers are trying to rule the roost. “ Yes, Australia is sure a fine country,” said the visitor, “and I’m mighty glad to be out of it. There’s one chap over there called Bruce, and like the other chap called Moses, he looks like being the only one to lead them out off the wilderness.” , .G “Well, this is easy to the ey.e§,"”t said Mr Hood as he took , his- ‘first, glimpse ,from ifie.-,,ship's-rail. He , ifiakb .a; fast tour tl^‘ongfi'n*eiv'Zeaia'nd to ;get an “ eyeful ” of Rotorua, the Franz Josef glacier and some olf the other &eifekt -■which he jhasj ItoafcL «m. |Ms.Ri3C«- V ! Mr Hood Says they have some fine show-places in his own country. A feeling of modesty prevented him from saying too much about Los Angeles, wlfl’clt4her-:avers'UiiTA’the"'finest climate' in the world, but he spoke enthusiast!-’ cally of the Yellowstone Park. He is anxious to see ’how “ little ” Rotorua compa&||,Wfti2- it.f rifep mentioned Alaska, with its voyage of' a thousand miles thtcftigh nhnTtcred V; watef. making r -great appeal to American ' tourists!" xhe once barren and tformidable Yukon; tvifa -now* a "place easily reaciifed'rfi every' jomfort.

“I’ll be catching a boat soon at Auckland to take'me‘back home,” said ; he visitor in conclusion. “From what hear ybi?ve got'a’fin'e little country,! tnd I want to sefe as much of It as I :an.”