FOSTER FRASER’S CRITICISM

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 March 1910, Page 3

FOSTER FRASER’S CRITICISM

A REPLY BY AUSTRALIANS. [per press association—copyright.] SYDNEY, This Day. The Premier considers tlwt Mr. foster Fraser’s comments on the flaccidity of the Australians are simple nonsense. On the average, an Australian workman will do as much in eight hours as the British workman in nine or ten. Rev. E. Sugden (master of Queen’s College) has no patience with a peripatetic journalist like Mr. I rasur. who spends a few weeks there and then from the pinnacle of his superior detachment presumes to criticise. Mr Irascr s libels on the youth are unjustifiable. When a man makes the statement that Sydney stands for pleasure, Melbourne for business and Adelaide for culture, it is ridiculous. The statement has nothing to recommend it except its epigrammatic form. He shows such superficiality that he should not be taken seriously. Dr. Leiper Walden, of Trinity I'allege, thinks that there is something in Fraser’s strictures. The ambitious student of the Melbourne I Diversity does not work as hard as his brother in the Home universities. liie Australian students seem to be lacking in a spirit of enthusiasm for national affairs.