ARE THEY A MENACE?
"WOWSERS" IN AUSTRALIA (0.C.) SYDNEY, May 7. The president of the Feminist Association, Mrs. P. A. Cameron, and Arundel Nixon, well-known radio entertainer, who calls himself "King of the Cads," debated in Sydney University Hall, "whether wowsers are a menace to Australia." Arundel Nixon said: "Wowsers are people who find dirt where there is none. They comprise only about 1 per cent of the population, but they meddle in many things. Take broadcasting, for instance. Wowsers employ, and I hope pay, other people to take down everything on the radio, and then they examine all this evidence to discover a double meaning. If there isn't a double meaning, they jnyent one. Then they insist that it is better for a man to drink his beer in frantic gulps than to take it home to drink in peace." Mrs. Cameron said: "It was properly organised wowsers who kicked Satan out of Heaven and sent him down here. The wowsers came from New Zealand originally. They were a small band of people who took as their slogan, J We Only Want Socials Evils Righted,' and the name was brought to Australia and applied to people with kill-joy motives.
"A wowser is one who learns his code at his mother's knee. A waster picks his up in other joints."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 109, 10 May 1943, Page 2
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