NEW ZEALAND PRESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18334, 26 February 1923, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND PRESS.

A VISITOR'S TRIBUTE.

i 1 The British Consulate General at San Francisco recently forwarded to the Government through the Governor-General, a newspaper report of a speech, published in the San Francisco Journal in December last, by Dr. William Campbell, director of the Lick Observatory, upon the New Zealand papers. "If a people are to be judged by their newspapers," states the article, " then the Australians and New Zealanders maintain the highest standards of character and citizenship," said Dr. William , Campbell, director of the Lick Observatory, speaking before the Common«wealth Club in the Palace Hotel on the results of his recent scientific expedition to Wollal. The papers print the truth as they find it, and this seems to be what their readers want. The articles on the front page are of a kind you are willing to be caught reading. In my travels I was interviewed by 32 reporters, of whom 30 took notes in shorthand. Fully half of them were college graduates: a large sprinkling of them were. familiar with science, and some had a respectable knowledge of astronomy. Never once was I misquoted, or made to say anything I bad not said. When a statement was directly attributed to me, it was in my own words."