AS OTHERS SEE US.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1295, 25 November 1911, Page 4

AS OTHERS SEE US.

DR. KUMM'S OPIXIOX OF XEW ZEALAXD. Dr. Karl Kumm, who has concluded a successful lecturing (our in Xew Zealand, left Wellington for Sydney yesterday. Interviewed just before the steamer Railed he gave expression to somo of tho opinions he has formed about this country and its people, during his visit. "I have seen tho four Dominions," said Dr. Kumm, "Canada, South Africa, Australia, and Xew Zealand. Xow Zealand is the smallest of the four, but it is also the most beautiful, the most. British, and the most .tdvnncod. I think that the way in which Xew Zealand has bravely undertaken the experiment in new legislation is something to be admired. While it is not as wealthy as the other Dominions, it has a climate that makes men, and in the days that are yet to be it will become the Britain of the Southern Hemisphere.

"You have done boiler in the way you linvo treated the .Maoris than any other part of the British Empire or any other colonial power," said the African'traveller. "You have made friends with them and gained their respect. They will become in tin? end a new rivulet which will flow into tho Anylo-iSaxon race." Touching for a moment upon tho land question, Dr. Kumm remarked: "You will have to bo careful in taxing your land more than you have taxed it up to now. A now country cannot afford to put heavy taxes on tho land, for imputation on Ilic land is the backbone of a new country. In South Africa and in Canada tho taxes on tho -land are very small. In Australia and in X'cw Zealand (ho taxes are heavy. It would appear to an outsider to be advisable to consider whether thoso taxes should not be reduced.

"Xew Zealand and Australia—and Australia far more than New Zealand," said Dr. Kumm. "will nerd in tho future men of enterprise, and it should be rcmem-. bered that if (hose men of enterprise aro to be secured, scope must bo given thorn." some questions which are a subject of local contention. Dr. Kumin declined to touch. Ho desired that his thanks should be conveyed lo the hundreds and thousands of people in New Zealand who had shown him great kindness, and stated thai thn intelligent interest, taken !?y people in (his country in (ho African problem had been very marked. About thirty university men in Dunedin, Christchurch. Auckland, and AA*eilington, have banded themselves together to study the problems of, Africa, and, if possible, to jto out as missionaries. These men, Dr. Kuinm added, include some of the best university ipen in New Zealand.