"The real Land of the Rising Sun" was the description given to Australia and New Zealand by Dr. K. S. Mui in the course of a talk before' the Shanghai Rotary Club yesterday on the subject of his recent eleven months' tour of the two countries. Dr. Mui said that when he left Shanghai for the south, he felt he was travelling to the. west. But one-third of Australia, three-quarters of its population and, of course, the whole of New Zealand were actually west of a line drawn vertically through "In New Zealand they welcome morning gun before we do here, said with a smile, "and so when we came back from this trip we were really returning from a visit to the real Land of the Rising Sun."
He was impressed by a number of things about the Australians and New Zealanders. For one thing, they seem to be imbued with a growing sense of "Pacific-consciousness." This was not a reflection on their Imperial sentiments or fies, he hastened 10 add; far from it. But that "Pacific-consciousness" was due to the situation now prevailing in south and western Europe, and to their realization of their economic importance and to the position they held in the affairs of the world, particularly on the Pacific.
They realized the mutual advantages of the exchange of commodities and goods between the countries of the Pacific. Japan had been buying about 950,000 bales of wool from Australia; Great Britain exported 27% per cent. of her wool to foreign countries and Japan 314 per cent. The consumption of wool in Japan was almost as great as that in Great Britain, which was Australia's biggest purchaser.
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