AUSTRALIAN PRESS CRITICISED

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21320, 13 November 1934, Page 10

AUSTRALIAN PRESS CRITICISED

"LACK OF INFORMATION ABOUT NEW ZEALAND" LTHE PEES 3 Special Service] WELLINGTON, November 12. "A thing that distressed me while I was in Melbourne was the poor supply of information about New Zealand in the Australian newspapers," said Mr D. G. Sullivan, M.P., interviewed on his arrival in Wellington by the Monowai from the Centenary celebrations. "As a matter of fact, the Australians, both press and public, are not interested in New Zealand," he continued. "It seems that the only New Zealand news published there is when a Maori runs amok or there is an earthquake. Most Australians seem to think we have an earthquake once a week, and spend the rest of the time rebuilding the country. Some people in Melbourne and Western Australia think New Zealand is a suburb of Sydney. "It amounts to a positive scandal. I don't know at which end the fault lies but I wouldn't be surprised to find it is due to the Australian end because of Australian parochialism. That is to say, it may be due to the same thing as the fact that the Sydney press and public take very little interest in Melbourne. That applies to any of the other cities i there that are at all far apart"