VISIT TO AUSTRALIA

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3949, 30 May 1929, Page 3

VISIT TO AUSTRALIA

NEW ZEALANDER'S IMPRESSIONS. Wife received a- letter yesterday from a commercial iman who return - ed by the Ulimaroa. on Tuesday from a business visit to Australia, •lie writes as follows: “Australia 'strikes 'me as a wonderful country. But the impression 1 have is that it is worthy of much more than its present people give it, 'both in quantity and quality of effort —I speak in very general tennis. It also seems to me that it is suffering from the consequences of flirtations with so-called “Labour” over a period of years, and tolerance of early years has been accepted and interpreted as license. In some opinions, the recent sorry spectacle of student antics in Sydney has been advanced as typifying the present day average Aussie temiperalment—a general disregard of feedings of others —a. sort of intolerance. I hate to think such is even remotely related to- the truth. But one. cannot overlook the daily reports in theijr papers of intimidations, breaches of trust, exhortations to violence, and similar things to appreciate the existence of a definite strata, of “grab something for nothing”—be it a strata thick or thin —which has been long and assiduously created. And one may well 'ask if the powers that be- —or are striving to be —are constructed on sufficient backbone and high ideals to regain and maintain that respect for law and .order so essential to good government and civic welfare. If not, it. will be American license repeated, which God forbid. New Zealand can be indeed proud and jealous of her standard.”