AS OTHERS SEE US.

Northern Advocate, 21 August 1924, Page 2

AS OTHERS SEE US.

NEW ZEALAND FOR THE BRITISH. < < NATIONALLY UNSELFISH.'' Mr Fenton Macplierson, at one time foreign editor of the London "Daily Mail," recenttly paid a visit to New Zealand, and has commenced a series of articles, recording his impressions of the Dominion, in the "Daily Chronicle." With the same purpose as MajorGeneral Wauchopc, Mr Macphersou endeavoured to make a frank disclosure of industrial possibilities for British people in New Zealand, and what class of migrant was most welcome. "There can be little doubt," he says, "that the sunshine with which the Dominion is so constantly flooded is in- 110 small degree responsible for the general good health of its population, which is so remarkable that for years the death rate is the lowest in the world.

"No thoughtful observer can fail to be impressed by the well laid out gigantic national scheme for the application of their inexhaustible stores of water energy to the provision of electric power, light, and heat for general domestic and industrial uses throughout the Dominion their plentitude of labour-saving appliances, their extensive uses of machinery in all branches of farming and other primary industries, as well as their scientific handling of the problems connected with the cultivation of the soil and the raising and selection of stock. Coupled with, individual industry is the collective spirit of cooperation which is so phenomenal a feature of their economic life. "By their success in linking individual effort with co-operative methods in production, transport, and marketing, New Zealamlers are attaining a standard .of efficiency, in itself a model for the rest of the British world apart from the individual ami national prosperity it ensures. "Were they a, selfish people nationally, it is highly improbable that they would have declared so early in their career as a nation their detei'niinat'on to reserve the opportunities afforded by their country for people of British stock alone. "For that momentous decision too much honour cannot be paid to the New Zealanders who made it. Tint decision and all it. has meant for the satety of the ICnipire explains the care with which the New Zealand authorities select l.'rom among intending migrants only those who are likely to become good citizens of the Dominion. "As a New Zealand-born ex-soldier put it very bluntly, 'We don't want to waste the big opportunities our hind a fiords 011 those who cannot make t!ie best use of them. We are an A 1 nation possessed of an A 1 country, and llr." only migrants we ha\e room for must be A 1 folk.' "