THE JAPANESE
“A WONDERFUL PEOPLE.” (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 23. Major Kirk, chairman of the Dominion headiCpiarters of the Soldiers’ Civil Re-establishment League, returned to-day from a visit to the East, including Japan. Major Kirk said that if his opinion was worth anything, he did not believe that there was any such thing as a 1 Japanese menace. If Australia and New Zealand provided reasonable defences and remained within the British Empire, continued to settle the land, thus increasing the population, there would be nothing to fear. He advocated a better understanding of a wonderful people. Japan merited great credit for her attainments. In the bustle of modern life the national kimono was giving place to Western dress. There was a huge demand tor powder and rouge, and it might not be so very long before the clatter o wooden slippers would be heard no more. He emphasised Japan s great advance in education, with its national policy of enlightenment and progress, not merely as regards the mind but as regards bodily health and welfare.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 240, 24 July 1935, Page 3
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