WORKMEN FROM AUSTRALIA

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22662, 17 March 1939, Page 4

WORKMEN FROM AUSTRALIA

TO THE EDITOR OT THX PRESS Sir, —“Keep N.Z. for En-Zedders” advises me and another correspondent to go to Australia and try to get work by trading on the fact that we come from New Zealand. If that was “Keep N.Z. for En-Zedder’s” mode of approach, one can understand his chagrin. Anyone who searches for work by trading on the fact that he comes from New Zealand —or Timbuctoo or Borneo, for that matter —is asking for trouble. The selfreliant New Zealander doesn’t need to trade on the good name of his native

country; he expects to get work—and hold it—because he is well trained, competent and progressive. I know hundreds of New Zealanders in Australia and few unhappy ones. They live in Australia because they are happy and prosperous in their adopted environment; and ' their environment largely consists of the fine people among whom they live. Let your correspondent take a good look at himself before he criticises others. He may then find the answer to his personal problem of why he did not get on with Australians and they with him. He won’t, of course—Yours, etc., HAEREMAI. March 16, 1939.