CANDID CRITIC.
AUSTRALIA’S CURSES. “TOO MUCH RACING.” LONDON, Jan. 9. An Australian land-worker, Mr J. M. Simmons, writes to the Daily Mail from Melbourne in support of Sir Percival Phillips’s criticism of Australians. He says: “The average Australian won’t work on the land because of the rough life, poor pay and long hours. There is too much racing in Australia and too many idlers trying to make a living thereat. Too much beer is drunk, and there are too many childless marriages. These are the great curses of this young and beautiful, but mismanaged country, which could comfortably support 60,000,000 people, and which' is yet crying for population. Farmers are obliged to seek workers from overseas. Some very brave men are fighting to develop the country, but get little support from Parliament.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 45, 22 January 1926, Page 9
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