AUSTRALIA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 2 May 1922, Page 5

AUSTRALIA.

LANDING OF CAPTAIN COOK

ST C_LBI_E—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT >/7 SYDNEY, May 1. n speaking at the anniversary of the N landing of Captain Cook, the Chief Justice (Sir William Cullen), referring to Australia's progress, said we can look the whole world in the face and <>we no compliment to anybody, high or low, who thinks Australia has" anything to be ashamed of. He mentioned this Because he had seen a suggestion that Australia should try to forget her early days, because the first people who came xmt herecame involuntarily. He pointed out that it was not the worst of Britain's criminals who were sent here; only the best of the offenders were sent to give them a chance to make good in a new land. Some of "the best\ population got a new .start Tinder this system, and he appealed to lis hearers to put those foolish jabTierers ki their places who say Australia lias to be perpetually reminded that in the first fleet were some who would lather have remained behind.