PEOPLE OF SCOTLAND

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 154, 2 July 1945, Page 6

PEOPLE OF SCOTLAND

DESIRE FOR EDUCATION

The Scottish race of 4,000,000 people had produced an effect on the world to which no other similar number of people could lay claim, said Mr. C. J. Garland, in addressing members of the Auckland Rotary Club at a luncheon meeting to-day on "The People of Scotland." The national hardiness of the Scot he said, had been brought about through the country's tempestuous climate and its rugged and unproductive land. The bitter conditions of life had moulded the Scottish form of humour—irony—although it had often been said that, as a people, they lacked a sense of humour.

"No students have suffered so much to secure an education as those in Scottish universities," said Mr. Garland, in referring to the great desire of most Scotsmen to educate themselves and their children.

Scotch thrift had been the butt of endless jokes, but he held that it indicated some of the best and most useful qualities and had resulted in the. independence for which the Scottish people were famed.