OF NEW ZEALAND INTEREST.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19373, 8 January 1925, Page 11

OF NEW ZEALAND INTEREST.

m itAOUHiAsn, SOJIB HOME “ TRUTHS.” (Feqm Ora Own Correspondent.! LONDON, Nova nber 27, A former attendant of tho West Riding Asylum o»t> Mcnston aJid a pioneer of Labour movement—a Mr FW. Holrovd —considers that the people of New Zealand have made a mess of the country. Ho has been on an extended tour abroad and now gives some of his impressions to the Yorkshire Evening Argus. His criticism of New Zealand has more than an element of humour in it. For instance, though as a Labour man ho has doubtless been In favour of State ownership, he remarks that “tho railway is tho worst in the world, much less comfortable and raoro expensive than here. It is Government owned ” “Roads are the worst I have seen, and oanitotian, is practically ho adds. “Drinking water is obtained, from the roofs after it has boon caught and stored in corrugated iron tanks. Some 45 per cent, of the school children suffer from goitre. There are no tips and no services. Old women carry their own luggage at the railway stations, and hotel? do not want people unless they ‘booze.’ ” POPULARISING MAORI SONGS. The Daily Chronicle publishes gome verses to-day entitled “In Maoriland,” by “A. W. ’ It is explained that a New Zealander hopes to popularise his native songs in London, and the fallowing is suggested he an overture:— My cousin* from Kentucky Are over striking lucky With Dixieland and Maryland* Wherever they may be, But I am courting lack, ah, With songs of Fuku-puka, Though Maryland Be Fairyland, , *Tis Maoriland for met Their Dixies have no juries To match our apteryxes, _ No glory land like Kauriland, No Whangaroa, Sea; AVc’vo oranges and lemonfi. Our bell-birds play Si. Clemente; There’s nary land, E'en Maryland, Dike Maoriland to xnel DISTINGUISHED DOMINION NUN, Tho Tablet announce® tho death of a venerable mm. Mother M. Clare Elliot, of Sion Hill Dominion Convent, Dublin; aged DO years; prioress for the long term of GO years. “Mother Clare was instrumental in sending out Dominican filiations to Port Elizabeth, iu 1S07; Dunedin, in 1S70; Ecelca Street, in 1882; and Muokroaa Pari;, Donnybrooke, in 1900. Dunedin is now the mother house of 10 convent® n Now Zealand, while Port Elizabeth has two branch houses. So highly esteemed was this nun as an educationist i-hat (ho late Orchlbishop of Dublin, iu 1893, availed of her services for tho foundation of St. Mary’s University Sol--ICB°' TRADE WITHIN THE EMPIRE. “ Tho now Government (says tho Daily' Telegraph) has been returned to power pledged to do all in its power to develop trade within tho Empire, and experience may show that stronger economic bonds will prove of tho utmost value in strengthening tho other tics, political and racial, which unite this oceanic Commonwealth of Nations, Few of ua, it is to bo feared, have reached an adequate conception of the bearing of inter-imperial trado on employment in this country and the settlement overseas of our surplus population. The tendency is to stress tho importance of too trade which wo do with foreign countries. Its volume, ism, of course, much greater than that which ia done, within the boundaries of our own family circle. But upwards of two-fifths of ail the manufactur'd goods which leave our chorea find purchasers in the dominions, colonics, and protectorates of our own communion.” Board of Trado figured show that for the first nine months of this year ‘the Empire absorbed more of nnr manufactured goods than tho -whole of Europe on the one hand, or, on the other hand, foreign countries, including the United States, South America, ,lupan. and China. M’hat is a very remarkable statement., illustrating the extent to which the industries of this country are already dependent on intcr-lmperial trade. Tho value of tho exports despatched to oversea parts of Uio Empire reached iu this period tho enrnums tt.ii.al of £2'l6,o23 r <XX>. B that emu ho considered in (ho terms of weekly wages, wo reach a. new valuation of the extent to which tho dominions, colonjos, nnd protectorate) are responsible for the wages paid week by week in tbe great industrial areas of tbis country. No one who has given a thought to this branch of our oversea trade, studying tho statistics of the purchases which the dominions and colonies still make from foreign countries, can doubt that there are enormous possibilities of further development. Differences of opinion may exist as to tho virtues of Imperial Preference, but there can surely he none a® to tho advisability of improving tho facilities for the exchange of goods within the family circle.” DOMINIONS’ PRODUCE. An article relative to flic origin and development of (lie innJlipio shop—primarily in this ease tho Borne and Colonial Stores (Ltd.) —appears in (lie Grocer. “In the development of business,” says the writer " there is no end. Just as Nature abhors a vacuum, business abhora re.st. Its growth may he punctuated by oonrmns and semi-colons, but it. lias no use for the full stop. It is nn endless serial story, always ‘ to be continued in c.nr next.’ Tills continuous development is illustrated in (lie multiple shop. As the one-man ohop grew into the departmental store, so out of the latter came to be evolved tho multiple shop. By reason of the largo amount of capital employed, tho financial resources available for tho produce-buying and tho manufacturing sections of tho business are such that all ojiorationa can, bo carried out on the mass production scale, thereby getting down to the minimum of cost. Tho pi-ico charged to the consumer only _ provides for a small profit on each individual transaction. Tho butter sold by these stores comes mostly from Australia and New Zealand. The company hoe elected to tap Australia and New Zealand for Initlor for a reason. It sella the choicest produce procurable only, and prefers to buy whenever pos-ihe from Empire sources in. preference to placing orders elsewhere, a practice at once sound and patriotic.’