LIFE IN N.Z.

Grey River Argus, 26 June 1946, Page 8

LIFE IN N.Z.

THROUGH CANADIAN EYES A picture of life in New Zealand is to be found in the issue of April 20 of this year of the Vancouver Dairy Province, Canada. Written by a correspondent of the North American Newspaper Alliance, whose name is not unknown in New Zealand journalism, he says: “The little Dominion of New Zealand, far down in the Southern Pacific, is probably the most comfortable country in the world in which to live at the present time. In the first place, there’ is enough to eat, and of the best. This doesn’t mean you can go into- a shop and order a 101 b. roast of bees and three or four pounds of porterhouse without batting an eyelash. You can’t do that yet. If you eat at a New Zealand hotel or restaurant you find at your plate a slab of butter a couple of inches square and half an inch thick, and you needn’t be afraid to ask for more. And I mean butter. New Zea-1

land celebrated its first Christmas of peace 'in half a dozen years by going all out in the line of festivities. None of the hotel tables and few of those in private homes' lacked their turkey. The hotels gave you plenty of choice, too. Duckling, chicken, good red roast beef, roast mutton ...” “People take things easy. They play a lot. Men keep up their cricket and tennis to 60, then learn to play golf and bowls. “All this is reflected in 'the health, manners, and temperament of the people. Despite all the travail and the apprehension of the long war years—and don't think New Zealand wasn’t hard hit. for she was (10,000 killed out of a population of 1,600,000) —it is a rare thing to note on the streets of a New Zealand town a strained or a harassed face.”