100 PER CENT BRITISH.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 45, 22 January 1926, Page 2

100 PER CENT BRITISH.

AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND

LORD BURNHAM’S BOOST. T LONDON, Jan. 7. Lord Burnham (chairman of tho Empire Press Union, and leader of the delegates which recently visited Australia) has broadcast a speech relating his experiences on the tour. “AH the delegates aro tied to Australia and New Zealand by memories of affection and goodwill, which will outlast their lives,” ho said. “Britain somehow, has never done justice to Australia’s supremo merits. She has been unaccountably kept in a halflight. That is certainly not the quality of her cheerful sunniness, which ought to make Australians sun angels, although they haven’t yet grown wings. “It is the Australians’ and New Zealanders’ proud boast that they are 90 per cent British. So far as vital matters go. they are one hundred per cent British. Emphatically tho Union Jack is still Australia’s flag, which school children loyally and affectionately salute each week. “Nowhere on earth aro the children finer or more' cheerful. Migrants’ fares to Australia and New Zealand should bo reduced similarly as to Canada. Tho best settler is the volunteer with the fixed resolvo to make good. “When Alice was in Wonderland slvo fell through tho earth and landed at tho ‘Antipathies,’ where people walked with their feet uppermost. There aro no ‘Antipathies’ down under to-day. On the contrary, there is a genuine and palpable affection for the Motherland. The people are proud of their British citizenship, origin, tradition, and character. There the Old Country lives again in what is par excellence the Commonwealth of the British Crown.”