NEW ZEALAND'S MARVELLOUS PROSPERTY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 26, 31 January 1902, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND'S MARVELLOUS PROSPERTY.

THE HON. MR. WISE MUCH IMPRESSED.

EXTRAORDINARY ADVANTAGES AND ENORMOUS FERTILITY.

LABOUB LEGISLATION HIGHLY PRAISED.

SYDNEY, January 24,

Mr. Wise, Attorney-General for New South Wales, interviewed here, said he did not see how any visitor to New Zealand can but be impressed at the very great prosperity and extraordinary fertility of that country, enormous advantages which certainly appear to have been made the most of. Wherever one goes he sees evidence of the very close attention given by the Government to the requirements of the country, and in this respect the smallness of the island is its advantage, since every local matter can be brought under the personal notice of the Prime Minister.

Mr. Wise was favourably impressed with the working of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. He got the necessary information to draw up regulations for New South Wales.

Mr. Wise particularly enquired into the method of dealing with the unemployed, "\fcith special reference to the co-operative system of public works.' He was profoundly impressed with the merits of this, and proposes to bring it under the Hon. Mr. O'Sullivan's notice at an early date. He says the system may be a little more costly than the contract system, but not more expensive than contract or day labour-schemes plus Government relief. By adopting it New Zealand has been'enabled to dispense, entirely with relief works, while the moral effect upon the men of the two systems, the relief 'and co-operative, cannot be compared.