ANTI-NEW ZEALANDERS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6964, 2 November 1909, Page 8

ANTI-NEW ZEALANDERS

MU T. K. MACDONALD’S EXPERIENCES. Spanking in the Legislative Council during a .recent debate, lion* T. K, Macdonald said;

Pos-ibiy the most grievous thing in my coming back to New Zealand was this: to find nothing but prosperity all the way from Perth to Adelaide, Melbourne to Sydney; to hear nothing but happy and bright prospects for the future of Australia, the people hearty and glad, and on the contrary to find that certain New Zealand settlers had been visiting Sydney and been giving the most horribly doleful accounts of New Zealand, that some two millions of money were going out of New* Zealand because they could not make a living here. All sorts of horrible and deplorable things were said. I replied to one of them : You have made your fortune in New Zealand, which has done some stupid things amongst a great number of valuable things; you have had prosperity a* a settler; why should you go away” and belittle tho country, and sneer nt Xl-w Zealand because its taxation docs not suit you ? Do you think that fair to a countrv that does not deserve one lithe of what you say? . Are you now displaying a want of patriotism and fairness after all the good things that Ims <• been bestowed upon you by that land, which has been a very good land to vou? -I say it deliberately that it is a great mistake for. any 4 man to leave New /iDiiaiu* ’and to visit another country without bolding the flag of New Zealand on high. Personally, I never lose an opportunity .to be, as far as I can, an ambuss -dor foi; New Zealand, w*d. In all respects do it justice. I Jf now, that when I returned to Wellington and heard the rash and foolish expressed as to the-futttre. that Ltock the .trouble to -look into the statistics to see if there was any justification tor the statements, and I was amazed to discover that with . all the talk agamst it by certain, foolish people. New Zealand was holding its own with regaid to its finances and productive power. that the direct taxation-land and in come tax -and death duhes-ha« only, increased, per annum, for each tax rm-er in fifteen years, by, what do you think ?-£l All of these gentlemen who are howling, who have made hundrecls of' thousands of pounds, throiig the increase in land ■™ l " e3 -.A^ l el^ l ta^i tion in fifteen .years .had P| }^- of U Dominio C n P "S l^mUlin^ in 1908 tho private ; wealth of ,-th^Doininion was 508 millions.. : in the annual incomes m Mteeu year was over 10 millions. And. yet this is and ttot °people were clearing out as. fast.as they could.