TAKEN TO TASK. FOSTER FRASER'S COMMENTS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 72, 28 March 1910, Page 7

TAKEN TO TASK. FOSTER FRASER'S COMMENTS.

"FLACCIDITY OF AUSTRALIANS." RIDICULOUS STATEMENTS, By Telegraph.— Prtss Association.— Copyright. (Received March 28, 10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The Premier (the Hon. J. Murray) considers that Mr. Footer Fraser's comments about the flaccidity of Australians aro simply nonsense. On the average, he says, an Australian workmaa will do as much in eight hours as a British workman Trill do in. nine or ten. The Rev. E. H. Sugdeh, M.A., mMter of Queen's College, has no patience with a peripatetic journalist like Foster Framr, who spends a few weeks here, and from the pinnacle of his superior detachment presumes to critic : se. Mr. Fraser's libels on the Australian youtfa are, says Mr. Sugden, unjustifiable. When a man makes the statement that "Sydney stands for pleasure, Melbourne- for business and Adelaide for culture, he makes a ridiculous statement which has nothing to recommend it except its epigrammatic form. Mr. Fraser shows superficiality, and should sot be taken seriously. Dr. Lepper Walden, of Trinity College, thinks the*© is something in Mr. Frsser's strictures. An ambitious student at Melbourne University does not work as hard as his brother in the Home universities. Australian students seem lacking in the spirit o.f enthusiasm for national affairs.