MISS FLORENCE BALGARNIE.
INTERVIEWED IN SYDNEY.
HER IMPRESSION OF NEW
ZEALAND.
Press Association. Electric Telegraph,
Copyright. Received April 27, 8.57 a.m. Sydney, April 27.
Miss Florence Balgarnie, interviewed, saidt "During the twentyfour hours since I landed in Sydney I have seen more signs of poverty, misery, dirt, drunkenness, and out-of-workness than during the whole twelve months I spent in New Zealand. You never see a working man in New Zealand sitting by the side of the road eating with unwashed hands. A working man there is an aristocrat in the country, who has raised himself to a standard of comfort I never remember to have seen anywhere else. Again, one doesn't see the extreme of riches, and on the other hand never sees rags. There is not that aloofness and separ fineness between classes noticeable elsewhere. I was impressed by the simplicity of life in New Zealand. They take people more for what they are than what they are worth. The fact of the Sunday Closing Act being to a large extent a dead letter had much to do with the rousing of the prohibition sentiment, and the success of the movement was largely due to the women's vote."
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 97, 27 April 1903, Page 3
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