AN EXAMPLE FOR IRELAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19236, 27 January 1926, Page 11

AN EXAMPLE FOR IRELAND.

NEW ZEALAND'S METHODS.

[from our own correspondent.] LONDON. Dec. 18. A writer signing himself "E. 0. Laoghaire," contributes a long article to the Irish Independent and holds up New Zealand and her progressive methods as a shining example for the Free State. " The recent elections in that country of the twin islands, which only last month triumphantly returned the Coates Administration to power," he says, "force it under our notice, for we have in the policy of its Prime Minister straightforward directness, broad sympathy, and a practical mind devoted above all to the interests of the people, just as intensively as in Denmark the Government's aims are the people's. It will strike you—the least attentive of you—that there must be something in a country which can place its butter on our breakfast table from half-way across the world. Internally New Zealand, already a very much up-to-date country, is bent on getting more than abreast of the times and its young brains put forward ideals worthy of emulation."

The writer covers a wide field, giving some up-to-date information regarding electrical power, railways, pension bchemes, penny postage, the Agricultural Department, workers' compensation, and Post Office bank savings. "All of which," he adds, "gives food for thought."