NEW ZEALAND INDUSTRIES

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 145, 16 December 1924, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND INDUSTRIES

LECTURE B\ T 'THE HIGH COM- : ■ MiSSIONER. .""... .:

(FEOil OUR OWN CORRfeSFONDEN-f.)

'LONDON 30th October. A'much interested audience listenedHd' Sir James Allen last Saturday night wfteri he lectured on New Zealand at^the Working Men's 'College at.. Crowhdale. road. This is an institution founded at Camden Town some time before the Middle .of .last century, and the Saturday night lectures""are. a feature of the College, ...■■ ■.•'"••■ ■ • The High Oommisiorier chose as; the title of his subject "Somte New Zealand^ Industries," but he covei'ed a very, wide field of, Dominion -activities. He preiaced, his remarks by describing what had been done in the -way of popular education, described the child welfare' movement; dental treatment of school' chilHren,. and the system of free edu-. cation. He indicated the development' thai had taken place in the primary in-., dustries and the amount of produce that is yearly arriving, in this country. - He spoke of Labour, legislation and niigra-" tioii; Last year he. said this nominations liad .increased very largely because the .people . -who had recently gone but., to settle in the Dominion we're beginning to nominate their own relatives . and friends, and the ftlig'ration Department in London would have no. difficulty iii keeping up the numbers of migrants.if the Gbvernm'erit decided to increase' the present rate of 10,000 a year. ..'"; ';.! The main portion of the lecture was illnstrate'd by. lantern slides.: The first of tlieste showed majs of New Zealand and Great Britain iii juxtaposition, giving the people a graphic idea, of tlfe comparative si2es of the two countries, the second was a niap showing the deßenden-. cies of .N.ew Zealand, from the Equator to the .South Pole. Tilers' f fallowed' scenes illustrating the chief .industries^ some of the larger town's, and sbih'e excellent pictures bf many of the scenic attractions of the Ddniihion. ■

MajoT-Geiiefal Sir F. Maiii-ictj Who presided; said he had recently read a book by ah American who had maintained that the Arigld-SaXoii race was dead or almost dead. Those who had_ listened to the lecture would be convinced that the Anglo-Saxon race was hot by • any means de,ad. They had seen iA-hat'./de-velopment had taken place in this great' Dominion in t eighty ,years. Their imag-. inations failed wheii they'"contemplated what New Zealand would'bs in ahotheififty years. ' \ - ■ ■ - .