VICTORIAN SETTLERS
ANTI-AUSTRALIAN POSTERS LONDON DEMONSTRATIONS <' LONDON, Oct. 9 Mr. S. M. Bruce, Commonwealth High Commissioner, on arriving at Australia House recently, saw for the first time the poster-carriers, associated with the dissatisfied Victorian settlers, formed up on either side of the building. Mr. Bruce does not propose to take any action about these demonstrations. On November 1 the poster-carriers will produce a new placard: "Centenary Visitors—The Australian Government obtained our money by trickery. What about yours?" The first poster: "Do not buy Australian goods," reprinted in bolder type, is legible on the other side of -the Strand. A woman passer-by paid the printing expenses and distributed tobacco and sweets among the postercarriers. The latter announce that they are 'appealing for support from hundreds *6f branches of the British Legion, and fbjL expect to cause friction between the and file and the executive of that
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21935, 19 October 1934, Page 12
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