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Southland Times, Issue 22076, 25 July 1933, Page 6

“Is there a good motor road from Sydney to Auckland?” “What is the class of ferry used between Melbourne and Wellington?” These are typical of the questions put to Mr A. H. O’Connor, American representative of the Australian National Travel Association, and they caused some laughter when he repeated them recently before the Millions Club in Sydney. Mr. O’Connor said that there was a surprising ignorance of Australia and its people among all sections of the United States. The position was not improved, he said, by Australians who visited America and talked volubly, and unwisely, of bribery and corruption in Australian public life and of climatic and other vicissitudes. In spite of their ignorance he had found thousands of Americans sincerely anxious to have information about Australia. Following his lectures and propaganda, said Mr O’Connor, he had had 15,000 letters of inquiry addressed to his office at San Francisco.

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