Typical Australian Welcome Preparing

Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 205, 30 August 1943, Page 4

Typical Australian Welcome Preparing

: (Special Australian Correspondent.) Received Sunday, 7.15 p.m. SYDNEY, Aug. 29. The projected visit of Mrs. Roosevelt is hailed with delight throughout Australia and preparations are being made jto give America’s “First Lady” the i most rousing welcome of which this 1 country is capable. Because of the ! short time available for her stay in tho Commonwealth Mrs. Roosevelt’s itiueiary is expected to te limited to tho four cities of the eastern States—Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. However, she will be given the opportunity of seeing a vast amount of Australia’s war effort and will meet as many representative Australians an possible. She is likely to be asked to i nfcike at least one national broadcast while in Australia. A formal reception |to Mrs. Rocsovelt will take place at I Canberra. Despatches telling of Mrs. Raoscvclt’s activities iu New Zealand aro | featured in all the Australian newapapers which editorially stress the honour dene to the Booth Pacific demoI cracies by her visit. ‘ ‘ Mrs. Roosevelt j is a woman of outstanding gifts,” says the Sydney Morning Herald in a leader, j “She has undertaken the long journey j ecross tho Pacific primarily to carry a message of encouragement to the men of the American fighting services, but | in New Zealand and Australia she will naturally see something of what each Dominion is contributing to the common war effort. She hr.s done much to cement British and American relations and one impression she is certain to gain on her present tour is of the affectionate hospitality of New Zealanders and Australians towards her.’* Great Judge on Law “It has been said that ‘the law i« an ass,’ while another critic has said that ‘the law is both blind and halt/ but the common law, when it is correctly interpreted and applied, generally expresses the usual practice and commonsensc of the English people through the ages, and it is generally, when so applied, good, sound, commonsense, and fair and right,” said Mr. Justice Fair, who gave an address on “The Common Low in New Zealand” to the Auckland Justices of the Peace Association. One of England’s greatest judges said iu a decision in ICSS,1 C SS, “Any proposition, the result of which would be to show that the common law' of England is wholly unreasonable and unjust, cannot be part of the common lu.v ef England.”