TREATMENT ABROAD.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXXII, Issue 2766, 24 August 1931, Page 7

TREATMENT ABROAD.

- AUSTRALIANS COMPLAIN. Australians are scorned abroad, ac--cording to Mr William C. Allen, managing director of Petroleum of Australia, Ltd., who (says the “Sydney Post”) returned from America by the Makura on August Ist. “It makes ■one’s blood boil to experience the treatment we are accorded. Our money is absolutely scorned. Away from the big cities in the United ; States they will not accept Austra- • ■ lian money. You cannot get five shili lings for the pound,” he said. “They; 1 are not anxious to do business with s you because they dre afraid they, will not get their money, and there , are plenty of ‘sarcastic statements about , ’ .us. They regard Mr Lang las a dicI ■ tator and a repudiationist of the ■; worst type, and consider that Australia is done. When one replies that Australia will pick uj/again in a few years, they laugh. Americans when they learned I "was an Australian, cften said: “Why, yen people are all • broke.” It'got that way that I was ashamed to show Australian m tes. In Papeete and New .Zealand it was nearly as bad. People were little; short short of insulting. Hundreds of people have asked me why we stand for i . Lang. My experience has.been that it is a waste of time for Australians to go abroad at present <x> do business. It is most diffictilt to arrange anything.”