ARE NEW ZEALANDERS SNOBS?
TO THB EPITOB Of THE PRESS. Sir, —Sometimes it has occurred to me that we in New Zealand want to be too superior. Other folk should adapt themselves to our usages—so we think. ,We complain about the con-
servative English, with their class distinction. We prate of democracy, and we are the biggest snobs in creation. Take the ordinary dailies, the gushings when someone presses a button. The world —our world — shouts out. The New Zealand aviators have done great work; they have created a record. Why keep crowing all the time about our achievements. We are getting small. To-day there is a report about someone being found drunk in charge of a motor-car. Someone had gone to sleep. An awful crime. If the individual had been attempting to drive it, it would have been a different construction. It seems to me that we are stressing pettiness. Can we not grow out of our childhood? After all, "white" New Zealand is only about 100 years old.—Yours, etc., PENSO. October 29, 1934.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21308, 30 October 1934, Page 5
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