EARTHQUAKE REPORTS
EXAGGERATED IDEAS UNFAIRNESS TO NEW ZEALAND "Something ought to be done about correcting the prevalent impression in Australia that New Zealand is a land of constant earthquakes. People think that every New Zealand cablegram about an earthquake has been censored here and the facts about the number of people killed hidden. The Australian press is always terming us the 'Shivery Isles,' the 'Rickety Isles,' or the 'Shaky Isles.' " Those were some of the remarks made by Mr. S.. G. Holland, manager of the New Zealand hockey team that toured Australia, on his return to Christchurch. He produced a clipping from a New South Wales country paper. It dealt with the arrival of the New Zealand hockey team under the following headings:— "Enzeds Invade Crookwell. Hockey Reps, from the Rickety Isles."
"That is only one example," said Mr. Holland. "We got it in the press everywhere we went, and people spoke to us about it, I spoke over the air on a number of occasions, and was introduced as the manager of the hockey team from the 'Shaking Tsles.' "
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21279, 5 September 1932, Page 11
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180EARTHQUAKE REPORTS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21279, 5 September 1932, Page 11
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