OUR SOCIAL WAYS.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 76, 29 March 1924, Page 22

OUR SOCIAL WAYS.

A visitor to New Plymouth has been Contrasting his own State, California, and New Zealand. The number of meals eaten seem to have astonished him. Three meals a day. Morning and afternoon tea were not taken, he explained, except when the ladies occasionally broke out into a Pink Tea and even of this they did not make a labit. The idea of an office staff pausing in its labours each afternoon to partake of tea shocked the visitor, but he politely refrained from condemning the practice, only saying that it was not done in America. They kept on ploughing into their work until it was time to go home for dinner. The difficulty of obtaining water, especially good water, to drink also impresses American visitors, who, when at home find iced water available at every eating place. This visitor said that it was often necessary to ask for water in New Zealand; evidently people did not realise how long his country had been on the water wagon! The quality of the food and its cooking in New Zealand received praise. The uncertainty of being able to secure suitable accommodation when required was quoted as the main obstacle to a greater frequency of visits by Americans. It was remarked that often a town was found to be filled up by race-goers, or through some oilier special occasion, and comfortable quarters could not be obtained. There eeemed to be a great many interruptions of the normal course of business. Only this week he had come upon a town which had a holiday on Monday, a half-holiday on Tuesday and another on Wednc-sday

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