LACK OF PUBLICITY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19969, 10 December 1926, Page 12

LACK OF PUBLICITY.

NO NEW ZEALAND NEWS IN CANADA. (From Odb Own Correspondent.; VANCOUVER, November 17. Has New Zealand disappeared off the map of the world ? It would appear so, as far as this country is concerned. Not since the Prime Minister, Mr Coates, made his ringing pronouncement, that he was going to the Imperial Conference to help, rather than embarrass Great Britain, has a single item of New Zealand news been cabled to the papers of Canada. Here is a country where New Zealand recently spent possibly £50,000 in representing its industries to the people, at the Canadian National Exhibition. No country in the world is held in higher esteem by the people of Canada than New Zealand is. The people say, “Tell us more of this wonderful all-British country in the South Pacific, where the sum of human happiness seems to be higher than anywhere else in the world. TelKus more, and yet more !” But no news comes. Why? Not because nothing is happening. Surely it was worth while letting the people of Canada know of the passing of that romantic MaoriPakeha figure, Sir James Carroll, whose name was known far beyond New Zealand. Surely the career of the late Sir Arthur Myers was worthy of note, when he went to his last rest Was there nothing of interest to the other dominions in the Budget of the only dominion that has been able to balance its budgets since the Great War? Was the greatest racing event of the year in New Zealand not worth a six-word cable, to let Now Zealanders, coming and going here, as well as Canadian sport-lovers, know the names of the first three horses? Mark, by contrast, the volume of news that goes out by cable daily about Australia and Australian .conditions. Four great news services keep it at a very healthy flow: Reuter, the Associated Press, the British United Press, and the Chicago Tribune. New Zealand is being let down badly, or it is too modest about its doings. Those newspapers in Canada that desire to give their readers news about New Zealand have to wait until leading journals arrive from that dominion before they can supply the demand. But the demand is here, growing in volume, and there is an earnest desire by thoughtful residents of Canada, east and west, to learn something of contemporary events in that country so truly typified by Kipling—“ Last, loneliest, and loveliest—apart.”