OUR ISLAND NEIGHBORS.

Mataura Ensign, 18 March 1909, Page 3

OUR ISLAND NEIGHBORS.

AltVj(.E tKOII C ALII'OR.MA. l'KI! VMICD WSESS ASSOCIATION. AVCKLAXD. March 17 .Mr G. A. Gut:;, president uf Pomona oomb C;.l ■ i'.iiuii. who is at pie■■.in vii-uing Auckland. 4)i'iil;int; to-day • i!i'■ et native race.-.. remaikcd ill:,I Nrv Xt-nland m taking .v.vv 11i,. (V i i.i:i- had undertaken ■■ very ri-H'»iw!.'ihty which did not _•. cui 1 t;i!iv oaom'.h realised here. ■) • i ii ih- N.-v. laud Government set u: v.-nrk ii couid d' I"' lliomi islanders just ax distinct a:;.! » f ; bright a work as I'. had d.s I'll' llm \iOU))Lc of New Zealand, and if ji did so it »ou!d set an •V-:an:;-K- to th« e.i!»aiuiaK nations of the vo:!d. I' Hi - i-dands were to he re_,;idid simply n> a revonu.-producing" .> -«•{ tintt '' .1? iv in ;e disaster lay. The ; Hipd-.' ! '•' '11 1" "1 ' ia l :-" !.~l;i 11. is llliglht hi: '' ■'■i"ily ;.M i" a !n,ib moral standard ■'! }>(••. H-ar at hand, was a hell :;i.,m i-arih. and that m- all the more :-"as"ii that .Niav /.calami should make a paradise oi : ii'. Cool; Inlands, and it ilicii' va• any t.lpcc in the Dominion v. here h>-iia-ii. a.-d the men of the higbw* character, should ho appointed, it v.'hs in the C'oek Tv-L.ir.'ls