INSULAR NEW ZEALANDERS.
(To the Editor.) Sir, —Reading an account headed "Escaped the Curse," in your paper of November 24, by an American. I was highly amused to think that any clerk !in an hotel here could say, "Nothing has been stolen from an Auckland or a New Zealand hotel in the memory of oldest inhabitants." Such a statement is absojlutely absurd, and an account of a theft I appeared in the same issue. The New Zealand people are too narrow minded and ready to throw slurs on any but their own countrymen, especially on Australians. It is a miserable spirit, and nothing to their credit. There are good and bad in every country, but I think New Zealand holds its fair share of the one, as well as the other. It is nothing but petty jealousj', and perhaps when they travel about more they will find there are people just as good and honest as in their own little isolated island, far away from everywhere.—l am, etc., 1 * DISGUSTED.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 285, 2 December 1925, Page 8
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