FOUR CITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 55, 6 March 1935, Page 7

FOUR CITIES.

PEOPLE DIFFERENT. VISITOR'S IMPRESSIONS. " AUCKLAND PROGRESSIVE." "There are distinctly four different types of people in New Zealand," remarked Mr. E. 0. Erickson, of Melbourne, who returned this morning from a four weeks' tour of' the" Dominion. "Xew Zealanders would not notice it, perhaps, as much as does a stranger, but the people of Dunedin, Christehurch, Wellington and Auckland are quite different, though all have one trait in common—they are inoet friendly and hospitable." "In Dunedin," said Mr. Eriekeon, "I met the Scotsman, very hospitable, quite talkative in a dour, sober way, and a stickler for the proprieties; in Christehurch the people are very English and very conservative. Wellington is another Canberra, populated in the main by civil servants, very busy and very full of "affairs of State,' and full, also, of their own importance. . "Auckland would be my choice of a city. It is much like Sydney, easygoing and cosmopolitan, yet, at the same time, the most progressive of all. As in Sydney, I have met men here wearing nine-guinea suits, made-to-measure shoes and a wide grin, whom you could take by the heels and shake upside down, and not turn a threepenny bit out of their pockets."