AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHY
Sir, —It is with some diffidence that I beg leave to challenge the correctness of a statement from Mr. Henry Bodley’s facile arid erudite pen, which has afforded interest, entertainment, and even amusement for countless readers of the daily Press for so many years. In Mr. Bodley’s letter, headed “Jamboree,” appearing in “The Dominion” of Jumj 18, he states: “It had common acceptance 50 years ago in the Riverina district of Australia, where jumbugs (sheep) were gathered together from all quarters, on the cool shopes of the Blue Mountains, in the hot season." Mr. Bodley will doubtlessly be surprised to know that “the cool slopes of the Blue Mountains" are not within, a hundred miles of the nearest border of the Riverina district. His statement recalls the line in an old-time comic song, which ran, “I went to happy Holland to climb the Matterhorn." I am an Australian, and lived for years in the Riverina district. —I am. etc.. MURRUMBIDGEE. Wellington, June 18.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 225, 19 June 1929, Page 13
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