AUSTRALIA

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4593, 20 May 1922, Page 1

AUSTRALIA

PRAISE FROM LORD NORTH- — CLIFFE. —- MAGNIFICENT PHYSIQUE OF THE PEOPLE. By Electric Telegraph—Copyright! (Aust.-N.Z. Cable Association ) Loudon, May 18. Lord NortliclilFe has launched into a discussion on the feeding of the Australian workman. “He is as well fed as anything in this country. The workman of England has no idea how well the Australian workman is fed. No man in England can imagine what Australia is like until he sees it. There are all sorts of unexpected things and places which you can never contemplate. What surprised me was the beauty of these places, as wo have heard for the last 20 years more about New Zealand than Australia. Lord Nortlicliffe deplored Labour’s attitude in certain Australian States. Ho said: “There is no place in the world where Labour is king to such nil extent, and in Queensland it is dictator. A great contrast was Canada, which had not tied herself to ridiculous Labour leadership. I bocamo unpopular saying these things, but lam used to unpopularity. In Now Zealand Labour seined more orderly and less arrogant. “Australia is so far away that Australians have no standards of comparison. They have many beautiful things, but do not admire them, because they lack tho means of comparison with other places. _ In Australia 1 was asked to admire secondrate buildings and bridges, but not the magnificent physique of the people, which are the -best in tho world.” Lord Northcliffo referred to Australians designating immigrants as “Pommies.”' He did not understand what it meant, but it was regarded as an insult. A gentleman seated near Lord Northclifle’s table interjected: “Rosy cheeks,” and Lord Nortlicliffe provocatively replied: “Liko yours!” He sounded a note of warning about the large number of Italians emigrating to Australia. There were several types of Italians; where they getting the right type? They wanted to hold Australia for J;ho British. He stressed the necessity of careful handling of immigrants on arrival and paid a tribute to the Bnrnardo boys, as the best type of immigrant. The man of 35 became a grouser. “I met plenty of such men. They are slacking about from town to town, getting the extraordinary hospitality that everybody gets in Australia, and cursing the country.”