A CLERGYMAN’S IMPRESSIONS OF NEW ZEALAND.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XI, Issue 182, 25 July 1921, Page 5

A CLERGYMAN’S IMPRESSIONS OF NEW ZEALAND.

London, June 3. I Tho ‘ ‘ Blackburn Times ’ ’ looks upon the stay in New Zealand of tho Rev. AL Hanson, Vicar of St. Michael’s, as the most interesting part of his world tour. In a chat at Blackburn he bore testimony of the magnificent young life of New Zealand. The full and open countenance of the children, their hearty joviality, ami vigorous disposition, told its own story of contentment and happiness. It was not too much to say that it was a perfect paradise for tho young folk. There was, of course, an absence of the restraint which one found at Home, but this was not extraordinary for a new country. What struck him 1 most was that a colony with such unexampled natural advantages and ideal climate should only have a population i equal to that of Manchester and Salford. If New Zealand had the requisite capital and workers, he believed it i would have a brilliant future. The loyalty of New Zealanders was wonderand wherever the National Anthem was played there was almost universal | homage paid by young and old. The I chief festuro of his tour was his visit ito Now Zealand, where the conditions i impressed him very forcibly. To young ■people ready and willing to work, and jto establish their future, the Dominion undoubtedly presented most attractive opportunities. ‘‘Climate and genI oral conditions are so typically British,” said Afr Hanson, “that a workman is very little affected by the ‘change.” Personally ho had a great opinion of its future, and he was confirmed in the view that the right type of emigrant would make good.