AS OTHERS SEE US.

Kaikoura Star, Volume LXII, Issue 22, 19 March 1942, Page 4

AS OTHERS SEE US.

What will people in other countries think of New Zealand in years to

Some aspects of this matter are mentioned by “Tanekaha,” a contributor to Forest ami Bird. He says: “What will our posterity remember us by I In | history New Zealand should aspire to be known not only as a country that helped to beat the Axis in war, but as I a country that helped the British EmI pire to equal and excel the Axis in the i high principles of the utilisation of | land and of the preservation of all those forms of life, animal and vegetable, that aid land’s use and conservation. “It is not enough that New Zealand should he notorious for deforestation; for draining operations which drive out the swamp birds without compensating for land losses by erosion; for allowing one cat to destroy an entire species of bird (the endemic Stephen’s Island flightless wren); for stocking the museums of Europe while allowing i the species itself (example, the huia) 'to be totally destroyed. These negative I distinctions do not convey any impres--1 sion of superiority. ” - ‘