WATTLE DAY IN SYDNEY
AN ANNUAL CONTROVERSY.
(From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, 4th August. There are two things always heralded in. Sydney by a spirited controversy. One is the Royal Show, the coming of which Archbishop Wright advertises regularly each year by a protest against the holding of tho show on Good Friday; the other is Wattle Day. The New South Wales branch of the Australian Wattle League, on the one hand, appeals for large quantities of wattle for distribution in the streets and for hospital patients, in order, as it always puts it, to stimulate a true Australian sentiment by the lavish display of the golden bloom. Then there follows in hot pursuit of this sentimental appeal the indignant outburst of correspondents who contend that, to tear the wattle trees about simply in order that their blooms can be distributed in the city for one fleeting day, is simply to encourage the ruthless destruction of our beautiful native flora. But the appeals are as futile as tho Archbishop's exhortation each year to the' show people to close up their exhibition on Good Friday. .Again this year the city was fragrant with the golden bloom.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 39, 14 August 1926, Page 9
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195WATTLE DAY IN SYDNEY Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 39, 14 August 1926, Page 9
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