DOMINIONS COMMISSION
LONDON, August 15
The Australian correspondent of The Times, referring to the Dominions Commission’s visit, says that Australia is still very gauche. She has not learnt, as has her sister Canada, to make the best of herself before visitors, and consequently it is easy for a casual visitor to take her all wrong, and go away with vague feel-
ings of disappointment and almost dislike. The mercantile community in Sydney answered questions with an air of restrained though polite resentment at being bothered. The correspondent predicts that the commission will recommend a reduction in the cable rates, the encouragement of cotton growing, the development of family immigration, and the establishment of a permanent Imperial board of trade.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3101, 20 August 1913, Page 23
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