"UNKNOWN NEW ZEALAND"

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23678, 9 December 1938, Page 14

"UNKNOWN NEW ZEALAND"

TO THE EDITOR Sir,—This letter is not written in a critical spirit of America, nor with a desire to come into conflict with "Not So Easily Fooled." Having travelled fairly extensively in America I can claim to hava met with groups of "people with normal intelligence. Perhaps the following may be of in teres! As a visitor to a Rotarian luncheon in Chicago was introduced as a New Zealander. Later, in conversation, a gentleman said: "You come from New Zealand?" i said "Yes" His '•eply was. "You speak very good English.' In New York - woman said to my wife: " You are English." My wife replied: '1 am a colonial." This did not appear to be understood. She again said: " I am from New iealand." "Oh yes, that is where the nuts come from, isn't it?" My late father-in-law, Captain Sundstrum, went to Detroit, where he inspected some cars, saying. "If ' decide upon this car I would like to have it sent to New Zealand." " Oh, yes," said the salesman, "that can be done. Let me see! New Zealand! That is in the New York State, isn t it?" When shown a map of the world in which New Zealand was pointed out to another American, he asked: "How do you manage to stick on? "—I am, etc., W. T. Wilson.