CANADIAN PAPER MAKES APOLOGY: CALLED NEW ZEALANDERS “AUSSIES”

Wanganui Chronicle, 28 January 1948, Page 5

CANADIAN PAPER MAKES APOLOGY: CALLED NEW ZEALANDERS “AUSSIES”

Recd. 8 5 p.m, Montreal, Jan. 27. The “Daily Star,” editorially, today apologised for its recent headline which “threatened editorially for a few hours friendship between New Zealand and Canada.” The “Star” in reporting a presentation in Ottawa of a Japanese sword by the New Zealand High Commissioner to the Canadian Defence Minister, headed its story “Jap. sword presented to Canada by the Aussies!” Indignant New Zealanders in Montreal protested to the “Star.” They explained that New Zealanders are not “Aussies” and while New Zealand and Australia love one another as brothers in the British Commonwealth of Nations, both are proud of their national individuality, and are undei standingly hurt when anyone lumps them together. The “Star” said in its editorial today that it felt quite sure that no Canadians misunderstood the story or appreciated any the less New Zealand’s gesture, because in one place it had been attributed to Australia. The “Star” added: “Canadians remember with glowing admiration that 8000 of New Zealand’s finest young men trained in Canada alongside their Canadian brothers in the Commonwealth air training plan.”