AUSTRALIAN LIFE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 12 February 1921, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN LIFE

IMPRESSIONS BY* METHODIST

MINISTER

BY CABLE—PEESS jASSOOIA'^ION—COPYEIG±T (Aus.-N,.£- Cable Assn.) '

LONDON, Feb, 11

The Rev. S. F. Coilier, interviewed by the {Daily News, gave his impressions of Australian life after attending the Methodist Centenary. . ■. :' He said the men-and women were of a" fine type, full of hope, self-reliant, full of character, initiative and push. The politics of.the country struck him as being somewhat degenerate, and the country seemed in need of statesmen who were looking for the good of the next generation, rather than keeping their eyes on- the next election. In; the whirl of city life people fresh from the country districts lacked restraint

and discipline

He adds: "Home and family life, as we know them, are little. developed i-V- ■. Australia. This, and the fact that family instinct seems to be penalised, y keeps the Continent too dependent on immigration." ■ l. -"-■/!