NOT WELL KNOWN.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18185, 23 September 1924, Page 12

NOT WELL KNOWN.

NEW ZEALAND IN UNITED STATES. "The United States does not hear as much about you here as we would like to," said Judge Stark, of St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A., who arrived at Auckland by.the Ulimaroa last week, after a two years' tour of the world, embracing Latin America, South Africa, and Australia, and who intends to sec as much as possible of New Zealand.

"The trouble is that there is not enough communication between the two countries. You are only some 6000 miles from San Francisco, and you are about 14,000 miles from England. It is to be expected that most of your intercourse would be with your Motherland. We do not yield to the Dominions of Great Britain in respect for tho British Empire, because we get our traditions, laws, and literature from Great Britain. It is significant that while we have a boundary of 3000 miles with Canada, for more than 100 years thorc has not been a gun on that boundary lino, which indicates how closely amicable our relations, are. Wc have 48 independent Sovereign States, but we are almost as fond of Canada as we are of our different States.

"If we could exchange more literature and more travel between New Zealand the the United States, there is no reason why the peoples should not come to bo perfectly intimate and well known to each other as the people in our different States aro to each other. We do not hear enough about your scenic attractions. Let me make you a suggestion. The American Express Company in the States occupies much the same position as Thos. Cook and Son do throughout the British Empire. If you could arrange to put your advertising on their counters it would do more towards making your country known than anything else. I have already suggested in Australia two ways in which closer relationships could be promoted—the establishment of a banking system that would allow freer exchange of finance, and a system of gathering news which would give each country more knowledge about the other."