AN AUSTRALIAN'S COMPLAINT.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 599, 30 August 1909, Page 5

AN AUSTRALIAN'S COMPLAINT.

. Sifr-Often when I read" in your paper, I see comments on'tis Australians. Why, f cannot understand.'. :Even the police inquiries blame us Australians. I think we aro the very Bame nationality as you. New. Zealanders. Anybody would think'that.you people were the only good people in the world. ■ Because-New. Zealanders >have- won a few paltry races and footballjnatchesryou are'the great people of the world. • ; : Why, = outside of your own' little plantation,, bar ', a few places -\n. the.'British' limpire, you are not known to exist. By the size of your place' and population, I reckon there is ■ jusf .as much . crime' as : there is in •Australia,' and there'• are. more, offences of- a sex.nature:committed here by New Zeaiandborn than in any part of the British Empire. I have,travelled:all over New Zealand, and in the small towns, amongst the school children, I have heard most disgusting language come .from their lips; language that would shock . some , of the hoodlums of Australia. You'call it "God's Own. Country," and that is all it is, or; the fat man's country, as I am sure lt.is not a> working man's country,. I know we are undesirables, and we Australians • are not wanted in the country. We would not ] have, come over .to this : forsaken • country if spme.. of your leading, men had not sent glowing accounts of New Zealand for'the'working' class. .•'..■There are. hundreds and hundreds' of New Zealanders over; in Australia, and I am .sure our people always welcome them over there. ■ -ret,, over-here, we are treated worse than Chinamen. You New Zealanders are such great people that you will get that way •that the Island will not be able to hold you. New Zealand would make jnst a fair ram paddock for some of the Australian squatters' stations. Hoping New Zealanders will get a bit more sense in the sweet by and by, and not be a laughing-stock of the world, and hoping you will publish this letter to let the New Zealanders know'how one of those awful Aus' tralians takes the situation.—l am, etc., : " . ■. -■"' . HOKRIBLE AUSTRALIAN. .. ..August 26. • .■'■;.• '.' '. f- .■■■•• ..., . ■■[Our,correspondent appears to , 'have been unfortunate in the New Ze.alanders he has come' into con tact! with.... This, experience of the treatment extended to; Australians is certainly exceptional.] ; . ~ : • '