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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 64, 16 March 1901, Page 4

Sir Walter Murton, first solicitor to the Board of Trade, lias, says a Dunedin correspondent, just completed a tour of the South Island. Speaking as a tourist, Sir Walter confessed himself very much impressed with New Zealand so far as he has seen it, “ but really,” lie went on to say, “there is one thing that.wants looking after. The sanitary arrangements in some of the places that I have visited are not up-tordate or worthy of an. enterprising people. The accommodation in -many places is fully thirty years behind the times, and the sanitary provisions simply barbaric. The steamers on Lake Wakatipu, too, leave something to be desired.” The visitor adds that he is a.i interested observer of our labor legislation, especially of that in it which is new. Lawyer-! : ';2, he hesitates about expressing an opinion as to how these things will pan out, but he is by no means inclined to condemn even that which is experimental. As he truly says, many things can be safely done in New Zealand with her educated,-sensible, and well-fed population,-.that .would be risky in other countries.' “ You era always go back if you J slake a mistake,” is the remark he employed. “In some places that would be impossible.”