NIGGARDLY AUSTRALIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3002, 26 September 1908, Page 4

NIGGARDLY AUSTRALIA.

At th 3 welcome home 1 ast week to the Australian athletes who took part in the Olympic Games, aston ishing statements were made about the straits for money to which one or two of the men were put in London. Mr B. J. Parkinson* said that the ca32 of Beaurepaire, who had done ho well in Great Britan, was remarkable. In London his resources were so small that, although the cost of a training swim in a public bath was only fjurpence, he could not afford it, had to walk two miles from his lodgings every day to an open pmJ, and do his work there in the icy water of an early English spring day. Mr 'George Blaice said ttiey felt that they had done their beat under the circumtances, but tiny were handicappad by want of support. Represeuta tives of other countries could go everywhere, and had every facility. Their allowance had been so small that when, after his accident, h.j had been brought back to the Stadium in an ambulance, and was carried from it to his dressing-room by two policemen, he had had to borrow a shilling fnm Beaurepaie to give to the policemen.