AUSTRALIAN YOUTH
"COPIES OF HOLLYWOOD" f HISTORIAN'S CONTENTION Speaking at a meeting of the Royal' Australian Historical Society in Sydney recently a member strongly criticised ■contemporary types of Australian youth, and suggested that an improvement could be effected if they had better knowledge of the work done by early settlers. Mr/ W. Lennard said, "We are raising second-hand and tenth-rate copies of Hollywood and New York." He said he had asked a class of children the meaning of the word "station," -in -its Australian sense, and none of them had been able to answer him. But when he had asked them the word for a. place at Avhich cattle were kept, he had immediately been supplied with the word "ranch." Tho children had also shown that they thought of policemn as "G-men." "We should foster admiration for those who came out to Australia in tho beginning," he said, "and did amazing and magnificent work." He also said that the words "cocky" and "pommy" had had evil effects, the results of which on tho nation it was not possible to measure. Neither of tho words should have arisen and tho man on the land did not deserve contemptuous nicknames.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22695, 6 April 1937, Page 12
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