AUSTRALIA'S WATTLE DAY.
THE ANNUAL PROTEST/' FUTILE SENTIMENTAL APPEAL. [FI;OJt OUR OWN COItRESFONTWST.] SYDNEY. Aug. 4 Thi»re are two things always heralded in Sydney by a spirited controversy. One is the Royal Show, the coming of which Archbishop Wright advertises regularly each year by a protest against the holding of the show on Good Friday; tha other is Wattle Day. The New South Wales branch of the Australian Wattle League on the on© hand appeals for largo quantities of wattle for distribution in the streets and for hospital patients in order, as it always puts it, to stimulate a true Australian sentiment by the lavish display flf the golden bloom. Then there follows in hot pursuit of this sentimental appeal the indignant-out-burst of correspondents who contend that tc t<sar the wattle trees about simply m ordeir that their blooms can be distributee* in the city for one fiiseting day, is simplv to encourage the ruiihless destruction, of our beautiful native flora. But the appeal!! are as futile as the Archbishop s exhortation each year to> Show people to close up their exhibition on Good Friday. Again this year the city was fragrant with the golden bloom. ■ ' '.-O ft fr .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19405, 13 August 1926, Page 12
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199AUSTRALIA'S WATTLE DAY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19405, 13 August 1926, Page 12
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