New Zealand in London.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19214, 21 January 1928, Page 14

New Zealand in London.

A cable some weeks ago announced the publication in London of the New Zealand News, a small fortnightly magazine containing news and articles of interest to New Zealanders in'the Old Country; ' The first two issues of this journal, which have reached us by the latest mail, are an interesting reminder of our close personal ties with Britain. It is a commonplace that we, the farthest of all the British peoples from the Mother Country, have yet maintained the Imperial connexion the most closely, but it will come as a surprise to most of us to learn that there are over seven thousand New Zealand-born people living in Britain. Such being the case, it is remarkable that there has been no attempt before this to give them in a handy form the latest news from home. There have, as a matter of fact, been two New Zealand newspapers in London before this, but neither was intended to have any permanence. The first, the New Zealand Journal, which has considerable historical significance, was first published in London two days after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, and helped to make known the possibilities of New Zealand as a field for colonisation,. Many of the great colonial reformers contributed to it, and the second issue contains Charles Bullets famous Ittack on the Colonial Office, which opposed every step in the early colonisation of New Zealand. . The New Zealand Journal lasted until 1852, and it was not until the Great War that the large number of New Zealanders in Britain, both civilians and soldiers, gave rise to the New Zealander, which, however, did not outlast the war. The. New Zealand News is of the same style as the latter, and gives in a few pages 1 a summary of events in New Zealand and news of New Zealanders now. in Britain or on the Continent. It deserves to survive, if only as a fine piece of concise ; and impartial journalism.