“ALWAYS TIRED."

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 46, 7 February 1912, Page 7

“ALWAYS TIRED."

THE YOUNG AUSTRALIAN. MANILA .MERCHANT'S IMPRESSIONS. Sydney. Feb. 1. A candid eriiiii'in oi Au.'traliaii' is off-red by Mr. A. F. D. <l. a Manila nrerehrnt. v.ho !>a.~ arrhf I from rlie East. ‘ s Of cours,*. I am only in a position to s;>'ak flora what is a superficial kri.a ledge of Australia.” h“ s lid l.i-t •■i .■ttirg. ”!>ut th" imbre--ion f Lavgr.th red t< that most of you arc tired — ."■■■ and ■. .oitinc to lean n;> tM’.iin-1 a post. I noticed that partk-n--larlv on th • vlrart- at BrU’wii- ar.d Sydney. Many of the young fe'lous I .s t -■ about :: e not ’v flirted in body, but win stimtid in mind. too. As lor >.•.•■!?. your harbc’tr is a'r right. Silt rnnr ••trr- 'ls UP’ badly in >rei*d o< cleaning. Taking it alt rotiinl. f L-i>.•-. < we are more up to date in Manila. I could say more, but 1 don t want to hurt relit feelings.” “ Don't irorry abo: ,T that. ’ '-••:d tlie report*’-. “ Eire a«av.” But Mr. Redfo'd could not 1-** induced to -ar any m.m- on this -übje-t titan th:.: it ” •nn d to him that v.e r.e’e becoming degenerate.” and he was going cer to Auckland to-morrow to sec whether the Neu Zealanders is ere anv different. One of the things that st suck the visitor as being very odd was to w>e white men working as labourers. Where he ci’.mc iro;,: white men only winded with their heads. It was ridiculous, he thought, to pay the high wages that ruled in this country for work that required no ability. Coloured labour would he far muie satisfactory, because it uon’d im.o' under control. The Filipinos v.er ’ paid an average ol - - pt r d-.iy . They w ere go<>d v. orkrnen. but th” trouble was that there were not enough of them, and the Government would nut allow the importation of labour from out.siile. That wi- i.ue nt th* things that v rs hindering -.he development of the country. It -Australia advertised more in the Philippirn -. sh” would get quite a lot ot tourists from there. At present they went to -Java, to -Japan, to China, but -they were looking for new trips. They ’would com** to Australia ii they could g.-t -ome infot ination about it up there. He had not b-en able to get any Ai*s-t’-alinn tourist literature whatever in Manila.