AN EXPERT'S IMPRESSIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 54, 5 March 1926, Page 6

AN EXPERT'S IMPRESSIONS.

We shall have to wait for Sir Frank Heath's report to the Government, but in the meantime this distinguished Englishman continues to make interesting remarks in public. In the address he gave in Wellington yesterday he said one or two things that are especially gratifying. The physical condition of the New Zealand worker has impressed him. Our standard of life has enabled us to recruit, he says, a better type of industrial worker than is available in either Britain or America, which has given this country advantages in amount and quality of output. This is a point of infinite importance. We have raised a particularly fine physical type: let us see that it does not degenerate with the extension of industry and the growth of cities. Sir Frank Heath also said that in his opinion no country ■of the same size has made so much progress as New Zealand in the ninety years of its history. This, too, is pleasant to read, but it should also be noted that he warned his hearers that they must not expect such remarkable progress in the next ninety years. He said, too, that competition was certain to grow keener as time went on. These two things are related. In the past New Zealand has made money relatively easily. Most of her good land has already been taken up, and in the future more will have to be obtained from this land, and poorer lands will have to be broken in. At the same time the competition of other countries, which are also being quickly developed, will become keener. It follows, therefore, that in production there will be need for better organisation, better education, more science, and general elimination of waste. Rule-of-thunib, happy-go-lucky methods will no longer suffice.