AUSTRALIA’S PROSPERITY.
ENCOURAGEMENT AND APPLAUSE FROM FRANCE.
Private advices received at Fremantle this week give interesting particulars regarding the inaugural function at the Roubaix (France) Exhibition which opened, on April 30. The exhibition afforded a comprehensive survey of the textile and kindred industries, and included a fine display representative of Australia, and another from Argentina. After the opening of several of the pavilions. including the. Australian Court, which was much admired, a banquet, at which 400 guests sat down, was given in the local Town Hall by the t Mayor of Roubaix. The representatives of the Commonwealth at the banquet were Captain Collins, C.M.G., Major Norton, representing the Agent-General for South Australia; M. Pierre Fliego, Honorary 'High Commissioner for Australia in France, and M. Lucien Nopenaire, Acting-Commissioner for Australia and New Zealand at Roubaix Exhibition. During a speech at the banquet the Mayor, M. Motte, said that they had admired in the Australian pavilion the wool and grain, which had given prosperity and wealth to' Australia every year. In France they were sometimes anxious about the welfare of their sons who had gone to Australia, but when they saw their boys returning in good health, with their faces burned by the sun of the antipodes. they were forced to the conclusion that the climate on .the other side was as good as the wool the people produced. “It is wonderful,” the Mayor continued, ‘to note the progress made by that young country. As for legislation, we have a lot to learn from them. Roubaix and Tourcoing take annually nearly 50 per cent, of the wool of .the Australian clip, and now that Australia is growing crossbred wool instead of getting all that wool from other parts of the world to make our cashmorq we will get it from Australia.”
The exhibition will be open for some months, during which it is anticipated that many thousands of people from all parts of the world 1 will visit it.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3240, 9 June 1911, Page 6
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327AUSTRALIA’S PROSPERITY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3240, 9 June 1911, Page 6
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