THROUGH ENGLISH EYES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIV, Issue XLIV, 27 February 1924, Page 8

THROUGH ENGLISH EYES.

FAOTORB OP DEVELOPMENT.

CANDID OPINION OF NEW ZEALAND.

WANTED, A BOAD POLICY

A e&ndid expression of opinion on New Zealand *nd tho administration of its affairs, and tho hope that there would yet arise a man of action who 'would set up « comprehensive road policy, in an address to tho Wellington Rotary Chib. "Save 'us from ike demoralising taint ef aational self-satisfaction," urged tho chairman of the day. Mr A. Jolly, manager ef tho National Bank of New Zealand, who added that countries like Australia were inclined to patronise New Zealand on account of what they considered an excessive spirit of selfeleration.

"When Sir Charles Dike wrote his Greater Britain/ after visiting the colonies in 1866," said Mr Edwin Cornwall, "be •SDresaed the view that New Zealand would never yet over tho difficulty of provincial governments; yet, within ten years of tho book appearing, a Dominion Government was established which was the starting point of tho development of the present method of government and organisation that had practically been the work of but four generations.' New Zeulnnders were rightly proud of their country, and have every reason to be. Its traditions, institutions —yea, its defects, too —so closely'rescsnble those of Britain that it is well termed the Britain of the South, Auckland, disagrees with Wellington, just aa Yorkshire does with Lancashire. Traders disagree, politicians disagree. It is the same at Home." THH FOTURE OF TRANSPORT. Although the railways, when allowance was duly made for distances travelled, the time they had been in operation, and the nature of the country, were really excePent, he said, tho only exenae that could be given for the roads w«s that New Zealand was a young country. (Laughter.) "I want to see » great reformer," be said, "a man that ifrU! coma along with a great policy ef reads, for the future'of transport in Toanected closely with them." plause.)A BETTER UNDERSTANDING. Then he turned to the Imperial Conference. "Every Britisher releomes the Imperial Conference," he said. "Bat* it should not stop there. Sometimes, we expect too much from tho meeting of Priib* Ministers, and we aro impatient because legislation does not immediately follow their deliberations. We ask whY do they not explain to us what they nave' done. It is not for that alone thai these meetings are held, but for the purpose of each Dominion becoming acquainted with the problems and the point of view of the other, and of the Mother Country. They make always for a better Understanding, and this should be sought in many other ways, sock as the interchange of teacher*. Members of the Parliament of Britain have not completed their qualification* for such a position until they have teen something of the Dominion?. (Hear, bear,)