"A CHAMPAGNE TASTE."
AUSTRALIAN EXTRAVAGANCE NEW ZEALANDER EMBARRASSED. " Tho Australian people have tried too hard in the past to keep up appearances at all costs," said Mr. W. Applelon, speaking at the Chamber of Commerce luncheon yesterday. " Anyone who has visited Australia during tho last year or two must have been impressed by the fact that the desire, to keep up thoso appearances nad blinded many of our Australian cousins to Iho most obvious facts of their economic existence. "I have often been embarrassed by (he lavish way they entertain you over there," he added. "They oven tried to outdo their friends in New York and London. Thero was no call for that sort of thing and now it is coming back on them like a boomerang. When 1 was in Loudon Inst year thero was a general move on Iho part of business peoplo to get out of Australian investments, and in Sydney a week ago unemployment conditions wero worse than anything I saw in London or in Germany. Tho main troublo with Australia is that for a good number of years tho democracy has acquired rt chnmpngno tasto on a beer income."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20655, 29 August 1930, Page 12
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