PESSIMISTS CRITICISED
\ VISITOR SPEAKS PLAINLY. Dunedin, July 18. Forceful comment on the, pessimistic and generally unhappy, demeanour of New Zealanders was passed by Mr J. P. Stratton, a Western Australian agriculturist who visited Dunedin. While in Wellington he was a guest at the New Zealand Trotting Conference, and also at a special meeting of the Dominion executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union. He spent many hours in these surroundings, and before leaving the Farmers’ Union meeting he referred to the gloomy aspect of everybody. Speaking to Mr. W. J. Polson, M.P., he asked: “Do all New Zealanders always carry such long and miserable faces around with them? Everyone seems to be as unhappy as can be. If we saw as many sad faces in Western Australia I think we would all commit suicide.” He suggested that the people of New Zealand- would find - their troubles much easier to bear, if they took them just a little less seriously.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1933, Page 16
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