FOSTER FRASER’S CRITICISMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2771, 29 March 1910, Page 5

FOSTER FRASER’S CRITICISMS.

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RESENTED BY AUSTRALIANS. United Press Association—Copyright MELBOURNE, March 28. The Premier considers that Mr Foster Fraser’s comments on the flaccidity of Australians are simple nonsense, and says that, on the average, Australian workmen will do as much -in eight Lours as British workmen in nine or ten. The. Rev. E. S-ugden, Master of "Queen’s College, says he has no patience with a peripatetic journalist like Mr Foster Fraser, who spends a few weeks here, and from the pinnacle of 'his superior detachment presumes to criticise. Mr Fraser’s libels on the youth of Australia he considered unjustifiable. When a man makes a statement that Sydney stands for pleasure, Melbourne for business, and Adelaide for culture, a ridiculous statement, which has nothing to recommend it except its epigrammatic form, he shows superficiality, and should not be taken seriously. Dr Lepper, warden of Trinity College, thinks that there is something in Mr Foster Fraser’s strictures. • An ambitious student at Melbourne University, the Warden says, does not work as hard as liis brothers in a Homo university. Australian students seem lacking in spirit and enthusiasm for national affairs.