SILVER-TONGUED BOWLERS.

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 395, 3 December 1912, Page 2

SILVER-TONGUED BOWLERS.

n +„ . The members of the New South Wales team of bowlers, who returned by the Osterley, tell an interesting story as to how they constituted themselves immigration agents (states the Sydney 'Sun'). "At every function we attended," one of the nvimber said, " and they were legion, at every hotel we stayed at, and wherever we travelled, we were never done talking about Australia. We met a gentleman well known in Australia — Mr Arthur Rickard — and he and Major Waine, of our party, are bringing out to Sydney 55 girls to act as waitresses at a city cafe. We got the girls from the hotels we stayed at, and a fine stamp of young women they are. Some of the girls had j never heard of Sydney. However, we were able to impress upon them Australian life, and they readily decided to come and try their luck in the new land. As we travelled from place to place it was astonishing to find how little most English people knew of Australia. They had no idea we had tall buildings and well-laid-out parks, and they were staggered to learn that there were three-quarters of a million of white people in Sydney alone. But, you know, we had two good spokesmen in Major Waine and Mr Scott, and at every function they were able to paint a very nice picture in words. Once they got started they became so interesting that everybody round them said ■' Go on,' "