NOT GLOOMY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17452, 29 December 1930, Page 11

NOT GLOOMY

AUSTRALIAN VISITORS

IRREPRESSIBLE ANGLERS

Refusing to be gloomy Australia, Sir John MacFarland, Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, and I)r. W. S. Littlejohn, principal of Scots College, Melbourne, preferred on their arrival at Wellington by the Unimaroa to regard Australia as a country that was getting a healthy lesson." “It’ll do us good,” said Dr. Littlejohn. “We’ve been spending too much.” “Yes,” said Sir John, “it’ll he a lesson. We’ve been living bevond our means.

A reference was made to the depression in Sydney, where conditions were worse than in Melbourne, and Sir John turned to the third member of the party, asking if he had heard about the man who was seen laughing in Pitt street, Sydney. “No ? What was that. ?” the third man replied. “110 came from Melbourne . . said Sir John.

Neither of the visitors, however, was disposed to speak weightily on Australian affairs. They had come over here, they said, 011 one of their almost annual fishing trips. Dr. Littlejohn, an avowed Scotsman, broke up the group with what he. said was the latest story from Aberdeen. A big indignation meeting, he explained, had been held recently in the Town Hall, attended by many hundreds of Aberdonians. The action of the city corporation in reducing tram fares from 2d to Ipl had precipitated the trouble. ' The Aberdonians fell it keenly, said Dr. Littlejohn, that by walking they saved only lid, where before they had saved 2d,