CHARM OF N.Z.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18547, 24 November 1925, Page 13

CHARM OF N.Z.

fOUGH AMERICAN EYES. rB L METHODS OCCASION IT .SURPRISE. frte •»«'' of ,hc Amcrican Flcct this _£ r has no doubt placed Now Zealand 3 the map 5° far as many huDdreds J tbpasands of citizens of the United Satw arc concerned, for numerous ft ifcelcs on lhr Dominion have appeared t w American Press recently describS. impressions of a tour through this T. on the whole, the opinions c.x- ---?,*„,! arc fai r > aa 'l *' , c information ITVvef' w aciurate and useful. The W Yj-jjj "World" publishes some inXstine impr< ,ssions hv rank Bohn, !sa theiirntfr seems to have endeuvJhld W portray conditions as they are. *RJ Zealand hotel methods not In - come in for criticism by fhe s?tor from abroad, and one of the Xtital hostelnes of the northern city fP tO'AW iausr '* " in wr '* cr some VJL&f <'A leading hotel of AuckIffu he savs, "though a most, sump|ffS. to'lock his door. Upon appealeru) ti>« e,crk ]n IhR off "' r ' that (lig " iLZ expressed surprise and -i feeiing iS iaeit to r d' v knew how to make Tu/fldwaited in silence for further deceiving none, Jj 0 ! Jw t jpurmured: "I suppose iny • *ifl be quite safe until .7 return. SESWyrt unpacked." "Of course 7iw irffl'-* 6 " fo -' was thc reply ' /*2»Miitf bas been stolen from un Auek'sKo"»* « BT Zealand hotel, so far as ithe memory of thc oldest There was one burglary ago, but it was several •S south of here. When thicaught -we discovered, of he was an Australian." i{et in Auckland. t thereupon took refuge on Icony which overlooked the sides, and fell to eomparic in the main streets with cities of the United States. nd side," he writes, "aires 10 o'clock on a Satur- , f 'aiid the hotel was located horoughfare, thc city was 01. The crowds of business sidewalks scented to be jr tho manner of. ar. Amenta a park on a Siiuday Tbo soft muwnur might rom Main street, in a Vir»f 10,000 inhabitants', docs exist—that one little of heart's desire," Mr is. "There autumn lingers tcr, and so meets spring iy,, Summer brings no ex- , nor does winter become >f man. Somehow this far aped the curse. And there * jadSyP" B comc to c > at iMi ' tllc individual There is no 11 c' BBB, cw Zealand is rt,|| is called 'common schbc' $w EM>«wl PToblcm. Tor instance, "at f||ere is thc best of drink sold at *S m4P" eoB » *^ e nter llcvct ' oncb W months' stay saw an in- '| B*£ Greater Yellowstone.'' . y pr&e Biuch-tni\elled .t is always ;ii§|j!Mmako comparisons as regard a ;£NKoi' natural beauty. But there is <J§|§|ng peculiar about the beauty of 3Hpalan<l as a whole. For so small Wm there is much grandeur. The fflMßwhirh indent thc shores of thc ta&Ka island arc quitq as remarkable rfp»tqrdsof Norway. The .'uncanny '*SMf?sof Botoiua and Wiirakei is a ;grc»w % ' with toiling vsprings/ soetbing mud pits, and geysers Iby thc^score." i* EJiumorating a brief list of • fundamentals of political progross in New the writer t>ays that the public mind of tbo country has produced a social welfare legislation £*hißff'"L appeals to many people in lis remarkably balanced and This newer system' liad been out of a full generation of ), and being now fully acall parties and classes, it "had form of a permanent social bone; these reforms are menpublic health service which New .Zealand both the loweßt ifant mortality in thc world, west general death rate in the I tlto roost generous old age w in the, world." ilievo," ho writes, * : thafc the o sutceßS of thc social policies ealand are due to three fact, they are o coherent, closely le. When they began these generation ago they nam- • a million. It was as though -ef Oregon were isolated in of thc Pacific Ocean."