A Pacific Pearl

NZ Truth, 7 February 1925, Page 1

A Pacific Pearl

.-_ ■» — : : YOUNG IN YEARS, OLD IN WISDOM. When a pretty compliment is paid, it is welcome as something to be lived up to m the future (perhaps!) if not as something already attained. In the former category must be placed the following compliment paid to New Zealand by the Argentine Consul-General: WELLINGTON, April 24, 1924. New Zealand is a living pearl placed by Providence m the Pacific, which it lights with its marked t spiritual beauty, and the inviolable purity of its sovereignty under an immortal sun. Though small, according to its frontiers, and young because of its historical origin, the Dominion is great owing to the vitality proved by its social and 'economic activities, and it is old by reason of the ■wisdom which it has acquired; and the noble ideal 3of brotherhood which distinguish its public domestic life. New Zealand and the Argentine gloriously tread the path of honor and labor towards a superior destiny. Without any conflict of religion or race, .and free from preconceived prejudices, they can both look to a future m its splendor of moral and material greatness. - „',-'..• V;- \ HUMBERTO BIDONE, /".■"- Consul-General of the Argentine.