“AUSTRALASIAN.”

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 4 August 1926, Page 4

“AUSTRALASIAN.”

Although the New Zealand distance runner, R. A. Rose, has so far failed, on his oversea tour, lo justify fully the hopes, of his admirers in the Dominion, newspapers lo hand by recent mails indicate that he was warmly received: on his first appearance on the English track—at Essex, when he won tlie Atalantn. Cup—and that the name of New Zealand was prominent in the mouths of speakers at the presentation ceremony. Neither Rose nor his companion, «T. W. McHolin, makes pretence of being a speaker—both preferring action, to words—but the l.atcter began early in an attempt to win for the Dominion her geographical (Luc. People spoke, lie said, of New Zealand and] Australia as one; .but they were four and a-half days’ journey .apart.

[low great was the need for this explanation is evident from the report of the meeting in the Essex Chronicle: ‘‘Air Rose, the winner of the. Atalauta Cup, came in Tor an ovation. The signaller ran up the AUSTRALASIAN flag under the. White Ensign on the mast at the grandstand; and the band struck up a. suitable air, amidst greht enthusiasm.” The capitals are. our own. It might have been equally interesting to have been told the “suitable air ” chosen bv the band.