AUSTRALIA AND AUSTRALIANS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 609, 11 September 1909, Page 10

AUSTRALIA AND AUSTRALIANS.

! ty'day's issue of The Dominion you publish-'a few of Mr; Poster Fraser's "€arly impressions', of, Australia. If you : will allow me a little of; your.:, valuable space .I should li kg to make. one or two comments on the subject. • . • -Mr. Fraser states he was told that Australian people wero great "blowhards." , On that point I beg ■to differ. You will find wherever you go people will praise up their native country. atid ' unintentionally otten over-colour . it. 4s a matter of fact, Mr. Fraser himself found later Australians do. not. praise up their country as they should. - "Why, asks 2kJr. Eraser, has the second generation of Australians become atto. the. city life? At present the land { n . Australians chiefly owned jn large tracts (a °cii ■ I '|S° , .PS !? VAStc), and until these parts are broken, up,and the small man is ; riven a chance.to go on the.land, Ho will continuo to stay in the towns,.where he can at.least get •Jr l'o the poorer classes of the Old World making tho best immigrants, we have found'from experience this is not so, What Australia: wants'is the man who understands the land, and not.tho people from tho\ slums, will. in> all probability return to their o d enyitQumvAvciTv WrWa\. It is -considetably J»tt«r to. ha-re sloit,immigration, of tho right sort'thanan,inrush of every "Dick, Harr.y," who will come at first bidI' 1 " 1- When .pioneers get quick returns for their capital and energy, what do tlicy doP /• up a " d bid eood-bye to the land m .wlucft they made their money. >w ®ttted to develop Ausa«i«l2'«h 1115I 115 class of ""raierant that tfX ii'^i., ra ' IS i,K et ' ontl wll «n they get that, jjith all, tli.c. other possibilities, Australia will bo a. land • rich.jn blessing." Thanking you for., your considcration.-I. am, e.to., September 7, ;1909. ■ . ' A vicTOEIAN.' '