OUR SAILOR VISITORS.
MISLEADING STATEMENTS. IN AMERICAN PRESS. A New Yorker, writing by last mail to a friend in Hamilton, says: ‘‘Last night'l saw a News reel of our sailors in Rotorua and Auckland. And two dear little flappers, seeing the Maoris dancing for the sailors, exclaimed, ‘My gracious, why did they send the Fleet to New Zealand? They are savages?’ ‘‘Wonderful, isn’t it? But there are actually millions here who believe the same thing. When our ‘Saltys’ return, however, I know that many will be enlightened, trust them for that. “The papers here have printed many things in connection with our Fleet on your shores which reflect badly on the friendliness and hospitality of the New Zealanders; but of course that’s mere newspaper talk. The news that our boys were liostilely received in the Antipodes sounds preposterous —but thero are always those who are ready to believe anything.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 282, 2 November 1925, Page 11
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149OUR SAILOR VISITORS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 282, 2 November 1925, Page 11
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