Thoughts For The Times
Con’s Own Country. There is no country in the wide world to-day where a man stands more on his own merits and less on his fathers bank balance than in the Dominion of New Zealand. Our legislators, whatever else may be said about them, are in no sense hereditary. We stand in need of political reform, but so does every country on earthy from Russia to the United States, and so will every country until it is so dead that its politics matter twopence to nobody. We have in New Zealand one of the most fertile and one of the most productive countries in the world. We have a climate and scenery unparalleled anywhere. Our institutions are democratic in spirit, and despite recent encroachments upon the rights of the people, tlio democracy of this country can still assert itself as soon as it makes up its mind as to what it wants.— Lyttelton Times.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 January 1921, Page 2
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