FROM ZEELAND

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 16, 20 January 1936, Page 7

FROM ZEELAND

DUTCH VISITORS

"I come from Zeeland, the old Zeeland," said Mr. B. J. Baars, a Dutch cigar merchant, who arrived at Wellington by the Makura today. Mr. Baars, who is making a world tour, spoke with pride of his homelarid and said that he was looking forward to seeing something of the country named after his own.

New Zealanders spelt the name with an "a," he told a "Post" reporter, and New Zealand was mountainous while Zeeland was very flat. Zeeland was a fertile country with many fine towns and splendid buildings, the seat of government at the capital being particularly interesting.

Commenting on the state of Europe, Mr. Baars expressed the opinion that' the European countries were all poor because of the high tariff walls they had built up against international trade. They would never prosper until there was a free exchange of commodities, he said, but he was afraid that would be a long time coming into practice. Mr. Baars, who is accompanied by his wife, leaves for the South Island tomorrow. •

Using old postage stamps only, an Austrian monk executed a replica of Da Vinci's famous picture, "The Last Supper," during ten years in which he was confined to his cell owing to jmental breakdown.