NEW ZEALAND EXTOLLED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18713, 20 May 1924, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND EXTOLLED.

<, THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY; [regard] FOR motherland. I ' * . ——-" ] a\ : .y : . ' . v [FROM our own CORRESPONDENT.] ' LONDON, April 3. I: The v£Wesleyan Methodist magazine contains : this month an article by Sir James Allen,; who . sets forth the opportu- ; nities which the "Britain of the South" offers : to the right type of settler. - : . A foreword ? describes the ; story of " New Zealand as not only ;■'■*'•': striking object lesson of successful British colonisation, but 'a stirring narrative : ; of what initiative and ■ pluck can ; accomplish in a picturesque and charming land- - v ' : The High Commissioner describes the social _ structure * of' the Dominion ;as essentially British in every respect. To preserve this , characteristic j" he says, has been the. aim '■; of her legislature. :V; The Dominion educational facilities ■ are the equal 'of any in the > world, the child ■■. of the: humblest \ citizen'; being ■; able, through liberal if scholarships, to aspire %i&? the highest attainments.;, The principle followed .in regard Ito this' and-almost all her social services .is that they are ;. a direct'charge upon State revenue. Although 4 New 5 ■ Zealand necessarily depends idt her prosperity , upon > the "British markets, there nevertheless' exists, adds? Sir i James, A among '■■• the 'Q people ;? a deep desire that their chief '■ business .] transactions : should v '■ always v be with 5 their fellow.: citizens of Great Britain,'' and . that the Mother - State should f remain '? as ! ? she [ was in the first instance and' is now—the ! chief partner in , New Zealand's ' success. ■