"TWIN IDEALS"

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 71, 24 March 1926, Page 14

"TWIN IDEALS"

NEW ZEALAND AND ARGENTINA

Senor Humberto Bidone, ConsulGeneral for Argentina in New Zealand, referred last night to the. twin ideals of New Zealand and his country. • The occasion was a dinner to the Minister of Agriculture (the Hon. O. Hawken) d the Department of Agriculture. Senor Bidone said:— "The Argentine Government, confirming once more the ( cordiality and long-standing friendship which binds Argentina to Great Britain, accepted gladly the invitation of the New Zealand Government to send two experts to this Dominion, who have verified the insuperable sanitary conditions of the orchards. The results of this investigation are auspicious symptoms which allows me to assure you of an increasing commercial relationship between the two countries, which, although they differ in language and customs, have a spiritual and idealistic affinity which bind them together with imperishable bonds, in the scientific and fruitful exploitation of productive industries. Both countries are progressing on parallel lines, exporting similar products, and tho two countries have in England the largest consuming and money market. It will be enough to say that in Argentina the British capital invested is no less than one thousand million pounds sterling. "The well-informed sources of knowledge of the English statisticians reg ,rding the great future of the two countries: in the universal concert, in risking their capital, when the public law was a fiction, permitted the prodigious development of New Zealand and Argentina. For this reason every •New Zealand and Ai'gentina heart is an altar of devotion to . England, whence palpitate like harmonies of the same song, vibrant and perennial strophies of one same poem,-satellites of the same planetary system, the hymn of gratitude. "':..- ---"The two countries have an ideal of life and destiny of common grandeur; why, then, not understand and esteem each other? . . " Progress is the law- of humanity and tho universal solidarity, the mandate of civilisation. "New Zealand and Argentina have done more for the peace and Happiness of the world, exporting necessaries of life, than other countries which export arms of extermination and death."