RIVAL PRIDES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 281, 12 November 1929, Page 8

RIVAL PRIDES

CALIFORNIA AND NEW ZEALAND. •‘We can’t boost ourselves as the ■world's best’ to Californians, because they have so much beauty and grandeur in their own country,” said Mis Bathie Stuart addressing the Advertising Club in Wellington. ‘‘We can only stimulate interest by creating a keen competitive feeling. Moreover,, there is an interesting similarity between Californians and New Zealanders—pioneers blazed the trail in both countries, and both have a colourful and romantic* background ; they with their Indians and Spaniards, we with our Maoris. Talking about climates, of course, you know that according to statistics, New Zealand has the world’s lowest death rate. [ always made a point of this in my talks before the clubs, and at the conclusion of one gathering a local resident anxious to uphold the climatic prestige of his native State, informed me that really California should have had that distinction, except for the fact that so many people from other States came to California to die. Many strange questions were asked me in the course of my tour For insts-nce, one elderly lady wanted to know shout the habits of the zebras, Ltcause she thought that New Zealand Sag their natural habitat. Then there was another who was curious to know the correct diet for a marmoset monkey. Another American from a small town told me that she was very interested to hear about New Zealand. She had relatives there, but had never been able to find the place on the map.”