INTEREST IN DOMINION POLITICS

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 65, 10 December 1936, Page 10

INTEREST IN DOMINION POLITICS

Visiting Australian Professor Dominion Special Service. Dunedin, December 9. Considerable interest in the political situation in New Zealand was shown b.v Professor A. H. Charteris, professor of international law at Sydney Uni versify, when interviewed to-day. Pro fessor Charteris is a passenger on the Maunganui, which is making a holiday cruise round the South Island. He was especially interested in local reactions to the experimental legislation which has recently been introduced, and remarked on the small amount of New Zealand news which appeared in Australian papers. “Indeed,” he said, “we might just as well be on another planet.” A few years ago a Press conference had been held at Sydney, and it was stated at that time that a better service would be arranged, but as far as he could see the position had not altered.

’Professor Charteris stated that he was purely on a holiday trip, and the voyage so far had been a thoroughly delightful one. He was full of enthusiasm for the beauty of the New Zealand coastal scenery. The West Coast sounds were, in his opinion, greatly superior to the fiords of Nor way. and the surrounding mountain scenery he compared very favourably with that of the Rockies. In the latter region, he remarked, the mass of mountains seemed desolate, and there was an inhuman atmosphere such as one might expect to find on the mountains of the moon.