NEW ZEALAND TO-DAY

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 129, 3 June 1920, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND TO-DAY

AN INTERESTING DESCRIPTION

- "New Zealand To-day" is the title of an illustrated hjindbbdk; by the Hon. G. W. Russell, formerly Minister for Internal Affairs arid Public Health, j The work is in eleven :isections and describes the physical featnr6S of the country; its legislation, industries, productivity, and social life. Special reference is made to New Zealand's . part in the Great War. ■ Forecasting the New Zeatend of to-morrow, Mr Russell holds that "it must forge iits way to a front, place amongst^ the, nations. All it needs is population." He believes that New Zealand is destined to" be-, come a land of small holdings in the better districts, and that the number of small^farms will grow... Mr Rus?eir remarks that ."socially the New Zealander of the future will.perhaps approximate to the English ideal. The roughness inseparable . from colonisation is wearing off. Higher standards of manners, deportment, and chivalry are being set. Jack is not necessarily as good as his master.Education is creating greater refinement. Gradually ,a leisured ©law will nopear, but not composed 'of the 'Knuts' of London -pre-war society^ or -the 'upper ten thousand' of New 'York. Our leisured class will own racehorses, shoot deer, catch trout, drive motors through- the country, and whenever the call comes fight in the ranks."