Writing to a friend in Christchurch, a resident, of the city, who is now visiting Melbourne, stated that he was disappointed with the manner in which the Australian newspapers treated news from New Zealand. The only reference he had seen in the Melbourne papers to happenings in New Zealand was a half-inch paragraph about the Hon. D. G. Sullivan. He added in his letter that recently he remarked to a woman in a Melbourne store that he came from New Zealand. “Oh,” said the woman, '"I was in New Zealand not so long ago. I was in Auckland.” The writer explained that he came from the South Island. “South island,” remarked the woman. “I did not know; there jvas a, South Island,”-
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 94, 15 January 1936, Page 15
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