Puzzled By Busy N.Z. Friday

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31089, 18 June 1966, Page 16

Puzzled By Busy N.Z. Friday

Dr. C. P. Kindleberger, professor of economics at the famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an eminent authority on international affairs, is puzzled by New Zealand.

“I just can’t figure out where all the people come from,” he said in Christchurch yesterday. “We have the population of New Zealand in Boston alone and yet I look out that window and don’t think Christchurch is any less busy; 1 walk down the street and the pedestrian crush in shops is as great: I came down from Auckland and there I saw a traffic jam which Boston could not better.

“This country is a thousand miles long and I expected to find people strung out over the whole of it. The flight down showed me how topography influences the spread of people. “But I just can’t understand

why this city is so busy,” he said, wagging his head. “It is a Friday and a New Zealand week-end is coming up,” a reporter explained. That, said Professor Kindleberger was something else he would try to understand in the next four weeks as a visiting Erskine fellow at the University of Canterbury. Another was the term “cut lunch.” “That really tickles me,” he said. He found that this was what he knew as a “box lunch” or “picnic lunch” both now handed out quite frequently at shareholders’ meetings in the United Stat-es—-“but ‘cut lunch’, that tickles me.”

Appointed.—Mr L. Tall, of Southland, has been appointed coachwiechanic of the New Zealand 'jiycling team to compete in the world championships in Germany.