GLUMSY AUSTRALIA.
4AND THE TRADE COMMISSION. &timea'—'Sydney Sun' Special Cables. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON, August 17. The Australian correspondent of the Times, referring to the visit of ? *he Dominions Trade Commission, -»aya Australia is still very "gauche" •(clumsy) and has not learnt as haft, her sister, Canada, to make the best •of herself before visitors. Consequently it is easy for a casual visitor ifco. take her all wrong and go away with vague feelings of disappointment, -.almost of dislike. The mercantile community in Sydney answered the ■Commission's questions with an air of restraint though polite resentment at "being bothered. Tho correspondent predicts that the Commission will recommend a reduction in cable rates, "the encouragement of cotton-growing, 'the development of family immigration, and the establishment of a permanent Imperial Board of Trade.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 18 August 1913, Page 5
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133GLUMSY AUSTRALIA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 18 August 1913, Page 5
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