A GREAT COUNTRY

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12298, 18 November 1925, Page 4

A GREAT COUNTRY

AND WONDERFUL RECEPTION fcllß ERNEST RUTHERFORD ON NEW ZEALAND. Replying to a welcome which was extehded to him at the Rotary Club luncheon yesterday, Sir Freest Rutherford, the eminent scientist, who is leaving on the return trip to England, expressed the pleasure it had. given him to revisit the land of his birth. “This is the last occasion for some years that I will have an opportunity of speaking to brother New Zealanders.” said Sir Ernest. “I'may say that it has been a very great pleasure for me to visit New Zealand again. The New Zealand people have given me a wonderful reception. They have made me work very hard, but I believe that is" a habit with New Zealanders so.foi as visitors are conoerned. (Laughter.) I often think how lucky you people are to live in such a country as this. It seems to me that New Zealand is pari' - »o-e=r>oy >o<^_)o-o-gg=>o<=K>-c=:

ticularlv favoured in a great variety of ways. You have a reasonable amount of sunshine, tempered by wind and rain—an admirable combination.” Since he was last in New Zealand there had been great changes, changes in the land and in the productivity of the land. He thought New Zealand had been particularly fortunate in its people. There was more intelligence per hundred than in any other community he had been in. (Laughter and applause.)