AUSTRALIANS’ IMPRESSIONS OF NEW' ZEALAND

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22424, 10 June 1938, Page 8

AUSTRALIANS’ IMPRESSIONS OF NEW' ZEALAND

TO THE COITOX OF THX PBEBB. Sir, —In accepting your invitation to reply to. the correspondents on the above subject, I should like to point out that none of them has offered a very satisfactory explanation of the singular impression the Australian people entertained of the true state of affairs in this country. I quite agree with wl/it “Liberal” wrote about Queensland, as 1 have lived and worked in that delightful state for 18 months in a sugar mill, and earned 18s 6d a day (unskilled labour) under conditions that have only been enjoyed in this country since the Labour Government took over. The impulse which prompted me to write my first letter was that which anyone might experience who hears of a friend run down for some faults he does not possess. In conclusion, I should like to make it quite clear that I did not suggest in my letter that the impressions of the Australian people with whom I came into contact were the opinion of the pepple of Australia on New Zealand politics; but, after all, if. one converses with about 200 people, say in Christchurch, who tell you that half of Melbourne has been burned to the ground, one begins to think there must be something in it.—Yours, etc., FRED DAVIES. Taratuhi, June 8, 1938. [This correspondence is now closed.— Ed., “The Press.”]