BEHIND THE TIMES.
A VISITOR'S IMPRESSIONS OP > AUCKLAND. Mb. J. M. Reid, president, of the Com- . monwealth Chamber of Manufactures, who '(-.'has been spending some weeks in New' \ Zealand as hon. Commissioner for .-; South Australia to the Exhibition, in course of .((conversation with a representative of the Herald yesterday, said he thought Auckland was a very beautiful city, so far as its ■'. surroundings were concerned.; " But you have very narrow streets here," he added, "and, excepting Queen-street, they are dirty and badly lighted. (In Adelaide we • hav» 2000 lamps; in Auckland ■ you have 1100. The tramcars here are very dirty in comparison to those of Dunedin, Christchurch, and Wellington, and they run at an excessive speed. The post, and telegraph offices and the railway station strike a visitor as being of no credit to a city of the size and importance .of : ( Auckland. Where .nature has ■ done /so much, man seems to - have done very little ," for Auckland. "At the same time, the hospitality of the citizens is difficult to overestimate. We are.leaving Auckland with the very happiest memories of the many' kindnesses we have received, not in Auckland alone, but throughout New Zealand."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13487, 14 May 1907, Page 5
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