Canadian Wants To Settle In N.Z.

Northern Advocate, 16 January 1948, Page 2

Canadian Wants To Settle In N.Z.

“This looks like a good country to me. The people are friendly and I think I am going to like it here.” Mr C. C. Edmonds said this when interviewed in Whangarei yesterday. Mr Edmonds set out to come to New Zealand in 1910 to visit a school friend, but he liked the conditions, ruling in Canada in those times and he stayed there. He lived for many years in Vancouver, where he was in business as a hotel proprietor. After a visit to England to see his family he decided that he would come out to New Zealand, as it was a young country and more suited to his way of living than Canada. Mr Edmonds flew out to New Zealand with Mrs Edmonds and had the misfortune to contract pneumonia on the trip. He left Canada because he said the country was becoming too Americanised. with everybody too busy chasing the almighty dollar to be friendly and interested in their neighbours. LEFT IN TRUST One thing that impressed both Mr and Mrs Edmonds was the fact that in New Zealand, it was not considered necessary to lock an hotel room when leaving it. They had found that nowhere else in the world. The law in Canada, he continued, was becoming as corrupt as it was in the United States, with daylight robberies of private homes becoming common.

Mr and Mrs Edmonds intend to fly to the Far North and look for a place that will suit them there. They consider the climate of Northland is what they require, and, if they can find the home they are looking for, they will settle in the North.