“YOU CAN HAVE MY SEAT. LADY”
BRAZILIAN PAYS TRIBUTE TO N.Z. POLITENESS
Recd. 7.20 p.m. Sydney, Oct. 6. Dr. Mario Santos, First Secretary of the Brazilian Legation in Australia, has again made headlines by telling Australians that in New Zealand men actually offer ttyeir seats in trams and buses to women.
“Compared with New Zealanders Brazilians and Australians are rough mannered,” he declares.
“Nowhere in the world are people so obliging, kind and polite as they are in New Zealand.” Some of the things he found in New Zealand, and which he maintains are lacking in Australia and Brazil, are: Taxi-drivers’ open the door and apologise if they cannot take you.
Shopkeepers who do not laugh rudely, or jeer, when asked for cigarettes or silk stockings, and people whose first, impulse is not. to punch foreigners on the nose on sight, but to welcome him. He compares the New Zealand atmosphere with that of London.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 7 October 1946, Page 5
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