AUSTRALIAN INTEREST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 194, 17 August 1936, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN INTEREST.

N.Z.'S GOVERNMENT.

By electing a Labour Government to power, New Zealand, for a time, aroused interest in Australia, but it was not long-lived, according to Mr. G. W. Warnecke, editor of Consolidated Press, Limited, who, with Mrs. Warnecke, arrived from Sydney by the R.M.S. Aorangi this morning. Mrs. Warnecke, who sings under the name of Norah Hill, is on her way to New York, while Mr. Warnecke will return to Sydney by the Marama on Friday. In New South Wales, Mr. Warnecke pointed out, Labour had had as much time in power as any other party, and the advent of New Zealand's first Labour Government had been regarded in some circles almost humorously. Its first legislation was eagerly awaited, but, since it had not been very sensational, the interest had somewhat died. This was but another noticeable example of the lack of interest and fellow-feeling between the Commonwealth and the Dominion, Mr. Warnecke remarked. They seemed to take each other for granted, and their domestic affairs were so much alike as to be uninteresting to each other. At the same time, anything like trouble in the Pacific would, he thought, find tliem solidly united.