MISLEADING VIEWS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 11 July 1921, Page 5

MISLEADING VIEWS

• i COMPLAINT BY Alti HUGHES. ! ■ j STORY OF WILD DOGS. UY CABLE—i»UESS ASSOCIATION—COVYHIGHT [ LO3ODN, July 8. j The day after Mr W. M. Hughes, at the Premiers' Conference, (••.nnplainea of inadequate and misleading news;'regarding Australia, a cable from Sydney Baid wild dogs from the centre were steadily creeping over New South Wales and farmers were retiring;'before the menace. , Mr Hughes says it' i& lamentable to ' find such gross and mischievous misrepresentation. "It is hard to express one's indignation at such venomous attempts to belittle and injure our great, rich country,-' he says. "I can o«ly look to public cpimon in Australia to deal with this kind of cable. The recrudescence of the wild-dog myth Comes at a moment when I hold an official message from Australia about the te markably favourable position. Nothing could be. more contradictory than this information from the Government ano" the story of desolation cabled from Sydney. This kind of news served up m England and to the world will affect our credit, and will be destructive to the price of our eommodit'es." Mr Hughes has already directed the attention of the proprietors of the London papers-to the misleading statement. ~\.