IGNORANCE OF NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17296, 7 November 1921, Page 9

IGNORANCE OF NEW ZEALAND.

"In one place I visited in Canada the editor of. the local paper interviewed me personally," said Mr Frank Goldberg, of Wellington, "and I emphatically requested him not to mix up New Zealand with" Australia. I thought I had fixed it this time, hut when I picked up his paper the next morning the heading to my little interview was 'Ad. Man Says Australia Wants Canadian Goods.' "I called the editor upon the 'phone, and argued with him, but aU he had to say in defence was that he was sure New Zealand was a province of Australia. Everywhere I went, at rotary clubs and advertising clubs,, I made a point of telling them where New Zealand was, and that New Zealanders did riot week-end in Sydney, as the steamer trip occupied four days. As a matter of fact, .America is so vast a territory in itself that I do not think the average American takes a serious interest in the geography of the rest of the world. "I am sure our sixth standard school 'children are not so ignorant about America as Americans are about this part of the world. I was waiting for a car one day when a man, reading 'Frank Goldberg, New Zealand,' on my bag, stopped and, eyeing the ibaz, said, 'Gee, you're ft long way from home I' ' At last, thought Lto myself, here is a man who knows something about geography—here is one of America's geo* grapbers! Then he let me down by saying, 'And how's things in New Foundland P' I told him I didn't come from Newfoundland, but from New Zealand, to which he replied, 'Wal, I guess it's nhout all the same place.' So I told him he had another guess coming —and hoped it would be a hetter Qne."