HIGHLY DEVELOPED

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 9 April 1934, Page 7

HIGHLY DEVELOPED

STATE OF DOMINIONS AMERICAN CONSUL’S VIEW (By Telegraph—Press Association) ' WELLINGTON, 6th April. After a little over three years as Consul-General for the United States m New Zealand, Mr Calvin M. Hitch, accompanied by Mrs Hitch, left Wellington to-night for Auckland. They are sailing bv the Mariposa to-morrow for Los Angeles. •Mr Hitch will reach tTio retiring; age of sixty-five years in Julv next and j«, retunning to the States to have a holiday before bis actual retirement: Mr Hitch said that he and his wife had greatly enjoyed' their stay in New Zealand. lie had found Government officials courteous and obliging and the. people had been verv kind and hospitable. “I was surprised when I landed here to find that the country had made such wonderful development in the very short time since tho first set-, tiers came to New Zealand,” he said, “Your public roads are, wonderful, and taking all things into consideration the development has been somewhat, in advance of the population o f t'm country. With vour present, development, New Zealand could easily accommodate double or three times the population von have, but these tilings, of course, will "conic along in the ordinary course of affairs.” Mr Hitch said that he was particularly interested *o find New Zealand so well supplied with first class newspapers.. He though it remarkable In a connfry, the size of New Zealand and with the long distance it is from the other centres of population that the newspapers should be ni-ile to c-irvy so much foreign nows each dnv. Mr Hitch said that he li-wi plsn 'linen TinvMrnl'M’ly impressed witli f.fio. agricultural and trade journals in. t.fic Dominion.