A FRIENDLY CRITIC.

Inangahua Times, Volume I, Issue 53, 7 July 1891, Page 2

A FRIENDLY CRITIC.

J ' ■■♦ The Manchester City News of a recent issue states that Dr Murray Moore, of Liverpool, delivered an address on New Zealand at a meeting held in the Memorial Hall. In the course of his lecture he said a good deal of the wondrous energy and restlessness of AngloNew Zealanders is accounted for by the exhilarating effects of the climate. Undoubtedly the North Island is the sanatorium of the Southern Hemisphere, and the mineral springs of Rotorua a veritable Pool of Be#iesda. Social life in New Zealand is unconv.entio.nal, full of recreation, and most enjoyable. The education system is free, compulsory and too absolutely secular in the lecturer's opinion, for the Bible is the only book excluded from the public schools. Boys' brigades and training ships are much wanted in the Colony, yet there is a marked absence of serious crime. It needs only 500 policemen to keep in order a population of 662,000 people, including 42,000 Maoris, spread over an area of 104,000 square miles. There iscerj tainly poverty in the towns of New Zealand, and there are many struggling settlers who barely maintain ' themselves, but there is no pauper class as yet, and no casual wards. Out-relief is given kindly and wisely, and the laws are just, humane, and i well admisistered. New Zealand is a paradise for Mary Ann. Recently an advertisement of a servant for a place appeared in a New Zealand paper stating that " None but a respectable mistress, who wishes to leave her servant in uninterrupted discharge of the duties, need apply." (Laughter.) No clerks, shopmen, factory hands, doctors, lawyers, clergymen, teachers, or architects are wanted in the Colony at present; only farmers with capital. ' The lecture was freely illustrated by a series of spiendid lantern views of the country. (Continued on Fourth page).