SOME COMMENTS ON NEW ZEALAND
Sir, —An Englishman or a New Zealander, visiting the other’s country, usually .finds much to applaud and, as between friends, little enough to criticise. Nevertheless, it might perhaps be of academic interest to know in what respects each finds the other’s way of life incongruous. As an Englishman, happy enough in New Zealand, may I hazard a miscellany of animadversions; viz.: (1) Sweet pickles: a nauseating compromise between pickles proper and chutney—an insult to excellent cold meat and an affront to its vestigial remains when converted to curry. (2) 40-hour week: quite incomprehensible. There is either no bread left by Sunday or a vast stale stock-pile to inaugurate the new week. (3) Liquor laws: nothing—except those in England—so ingeniously illogical. (4) Delivery of newspapers: ‘‘Nihil utile quod non legibile,” saturated with matutinal rain. (5) Dry mustard: scarcity of water or deliberate sabotage? (6) Cook Strait: a confounded nuisance.—Yours, etc., M.T. June 10, 1954.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27373, 11 June 1954, Page 9
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