IMPRESSIONS OF NEW ZEALAND.
AN ENGLISHMAN WHO WAS NOT. IMPRESSED. The following extracts are culled from an interview given to “The Isle of Man Examiner’’ by an Englishman who visited New Zealand recently:—
“New Zealanders seem to have eliminated the words “Sir," “Madam,”’ “please," • and “thank you” from the language. The country is over-run with insect pests, including house beetles, mosquitoes, stinging fleas and big caterpillars. New Zealand girls I met had thick coarse, yellow, leathery skins, wrinkled and lined prematurely through screwing up . the eyes to minimise the effects of sun-glare. Italians and Chinamen do the real work of the country. They build the houses and make the roads. You are told on arriving in New Zealand that if you attempt to tip any worker you will be “gratuitously insulting” him. J The newspapers contain notices of employment with “No English need apply.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LV, Issue 4492, 16 May 1935, Page 2
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144IMPRESSIONS OF NEW ZEALAND. Manawatu Herald, Volume LV, Issue 4492, 16 May 1935, Page 2
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