“BACKWARD” NATION

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30294, 21 November 1963, Page 16

“BACKWARD” NATION

View Of N.Z. After Asia

(HZ. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Nov. 20. A visit to some Asian countries left the impression that New Zealand was relatively unprogressive, a schoolboy who has just returned from Singapore, Malaya and Thailand said in Auckland today. He is Glen McKay, a Form VI pupil at Wanganui Techmcal College who was one of five students who addressed the Asian studies seminar today. Glen and five other schoolboys raised money themselves and toured with a master at the college in the August holidays. New' Zealand seemed relatively unprogressive, by comparison with South-ast Asia today, he said. This was especially true in Singapore, where hundreds of acres had just been levelled when he was there to provide for vast factories and a new port Government fiats were going up at the rate ef one flat every 40 minutes and one new school was being built in Singapore every week. New Zealand needed to look to her trade prospects. In one place in Thailand he' saw New Zealand represented by some bruised apples at an exorbitant price.

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