AS OTHERS SEE US.
MR G. H. REID'S. VIEWS.
PROSPERITY OF NEW ZEALAND.
FEDERATION PROSPECTS.
SYDNEY, this day
Mr G. H. Reid, interviewed, said he was struck by the general prosperily of the New Zealanders. The gap between the classes of the masses was much smaller than usual. No sort of bad legislation could keep New Zealand back, but so far as he could see it was the general belief in the soundness of the .measures with which Mr Seddon's name was connected. J\fr Seddon assured him of his thorough sympathy with federation, and he hoped New Zealand would yet find ifc possible to join. Personally Mr Reid found there was general interest in the question, but it went no further. Federation in New Zealand was not within practical politics, the only matter upon which the New Zealanders are concerned was the tariff. Mr Reid thinks if New Zealanders could be assured of a reciprocity treaty with the common' wealth their interest in federation would die, but he told the leaders that the prospects of any such treaty were not encouraging. He said he was- sanguine however that federation would become a serious question in New Zealand in the course of a few years.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 30, 5 February 1900, Page 5
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