ADVICE TO LADS

Grey River Argus, 11 February 1938, Page 9

ADVICE TO LADS

VISITING NEW ZEALAND. [Own Correspondent.] LONDON, January 15. The Jligh Commissioner, Mr. W. 3. Jordan, speaking at a farewell dinner at the Royal Empire Society to twenty English Public School boys who left yesterday by the “Tainui” for New Zealand, gave some useful advice to the lads. Mrs. Jordan was present with the High Commissioner. If, said the High Commissioner, they saw anything they felt inclined to criticise in the Dominion, it would be as well to remember that New Zealand had been built up in a century, and that the population to-day was not much bigger than that of Manchester. He suggested that they give more attention to what New Zealand would think about them than what they thought about New Zealand. In New Zealand they would be judged’ndt from the schools they came from, but their schools would be judged by them. Mr. Jordan told of the great quantity of produce exported from the Dominion to New Zealand, he said, was a wonderful country, and there were no wild animals there, no snakes, nothing-venomous, and no millionaires. It is often said that the battles of Britain have been, won by those edu--cated at the Public Schools, and while this may be true they will perhaps concede that those educated elsewhere, or not academically educated, have -given some assistance. Mr. Jordan mentioned that our Empire has been developed, not only by battles, but also by those pioneers who have endured hardships in the settlement of new countries, which settlement has-led up to the growth of the great, countries which form the British Empire,