NEW ZEALAND PRAISED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21580, 26 August 1933, Page 12

NEW ZEALAND PRAISED

AMERICAN'S IMPRESSIONS IMPRESSED AT PROGRESS After a stay of a month in New Zealand, Dr. F. W. Kirsch, cf St. Louis. Missouri, will return to the United .States by tho Mariposa to-day. Dr. Kirsch, who is accompanied by his wifo. has been on a tour of Australia and New Zealand, and he said yesterday he had been extraordinarily impressed during his visit to the Dominion. "For years my wife and I visited European countries," he said, "but, on tho last occasion of deciding on a tour abroad, we thought we should travel t.o Australia and New Zealand. We had actually received an invitation_ from a famous Paris hotel, but, in view of France's attitude over war debts, we replied that we did not caro to visit French shores again. We had heard a good deal of New Zealand, but we had no idea of what it really was until we reached the country. To us, it was possibly an island inhabited by a few people." To him, it was particularly striking that there should bo such an advancement in thought in a country as young as New Zealand. The hospitality of tho people was especially striking.

In the opinion of Dr. Kirsch. the service at New Zealand hotels and the facilities afforded in tho cities was more than could be expected in a young country. Taking Auckland as an instance, he said the general cleanliness of the city was remarkable, and the standard of tha city was higher than that of any centre of comparable size that he had visited in the course of extensive travel. As a physician, ho could add a word of praise for the Auckland Public Hospital, which appeared to him to be thoroughly modern, and exceptionally so, considering the distance of the Dominion from countries where medical progress was ordinarily expected. _____