LORD NORTHCLIFFE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17845, 28 July 1921, Page 7

LORD NORTHCLIFFE.

AUSTRALASIAN TOUR.

A WEEK IN NEW ZEALAND. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 11.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 26. A representative of the Australian Press Association interviewed Lord Northcliffe, who has arrived here on his way to New Zealand and Australia. Lord Northcliffe said: "I do not know what my plans will be when I arrive in Australia. I understand that distances there are a great factor. One must make special provision for this when desiring to see the country. I want to know the people of Australia and New Zealand, not so much the Governments. I do not desire banquets or official receptions. "I will land in New Zealand, spend a week there, and then proceed to Australia for a three-weeks' visit. I shall then go to the Philippines, and shall write about Australia when I return home." TO STUDY PACIFIC PROBLEMS. FAR EAST AFTER AUSTRALIA. LONIX>N. July 16. Lord Northcliffe had a most enthusiastic send-off at Waterloo Station, especially by his employees. General Booth, in a farewell letter, remarked : "It is a fine, brave, thought which takes you on this tour. You are ri"h.t in thinking as you do about the Pacific." Lord Northcliffe will devote ,his tour mainly to the study of Pacific problems, and the problems of every country bordering the Pacific. Lord Northcliffe will travel via- Vancouver, Honolulu, and Auckland, and will leave Australia at the end of September for the Philippines, {Japan, Korea, China, . the Straits Settlements, and India. He said before leaving that he was very grateful for the numberless invitations cabled from Australia and New Zealand, and added that h© feared that the young Prince of Wales' intense vitality might lead Australia to think he was similarly endowed. "As a matter of fact," he said, "I am a rather tired man, and shall be 56 onJuly 15. If my friends could arrange a public function in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane, I should be grateful, but I want quietly to see a little of Australia and the Australian people on my People at banquets look alike the world over. I want to walk about the streets and drive through the country. I do not want long rail journeys, which also are the same the world over. I want to meet new newspaper friends." iit lllmmlmm r; ~„„,. M „„.,.,, M