ADVERTISING THE COLONY (From Our Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, September 23.

Otago Witness, Issue 2690, 4 October 1905, Page 14

ADVERTISING THE COLONY (From Our Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, September 23.

When the Estimates of the Tourist and Health Resorts Department were going through early on Saturday morning, Mr Kirkbride, speaking on the item of £5000 for advertising and d ; stribiition of t pamphlets, etc., complained of the exj aggerated statements contained in the New ! i Zealand Government catalogue of exhibits at i the Lousiana Purchase Exposition, from which he gava the following quotation: — "There are no unemployed in New Zealand, and the working man has constant work at high wages. The New Zealand working man does not live in a flat or a hovel. He lives in a six or seven room villa, situated on a quarter acre of land, with lawn and flower garden in front. Sometimes ho renfc-i this property, more j often he owns it." Mr Kirkbride said members could compare this with what the Premier had said recently regarding the slums and tenements in which working men in Wellington were compelled to live. Sir •Joseph Ward, in defending tho publication of tha statement, urged that at anyrats New Zealand was one of the finsst countries in the world for people to live in, and one of ihe best countries in the world for the working man. He knew places, he declared, where working- men really did live in sixroomod ccittaws. and owned their quartav aere=. There were many in WellingtonNew Zealand, he went on to urge, was practically a paradise for the working man. and morahai-s could not deny it. Mr Massey j also quored from an extract from "The Btcry of Now Zealond, ' written by Profeosor Par-on^s, of Chicago, but which was embodied in the pamphlet aoove the signature of Mr Dorm?. the rvprescntativ? of New Zealand at the St. Loiis Exposition. In th:s extract "a few important contracts" between Amer ca aDd New Zealand are net oiii in p trail cl columns. The following are choice ■spennx-ns of thp ecrraarkens i which wc/e quoted by Mr Massoy: — j j Unttei) States Xi:w Zealand. | Go-, ciii me n i by Government by tho j pair: , spoils =j-stem , peoplt ; mer.t system ; j political coiTuntiop. no poht-cal coiuii?- ; Dollar th» king, 'i'.txa- tion ; ran.^ hood tin ! 'ion for revenue , km,j. Taxation Tor monopolisms ai.d po-h- ibo public , t.he i ticiano ia conrro". ccii'hcon people :n cov.trol Thesp comparisons chew -omc cau=t:c ccmMf'TSls from the Leader o" the Opposition, j "No fo'itical corruption in New Zealand." he said. "W'^at a^u*- tho otr.s in reds and bridges m the PrbV Works Stniemei t? No monrpiy in >7p\v Zealand. Well, the only monopoly I know of is the (lov-pv.i-n>wit itself." acdod Mr Ma^sey. The* Jlinist?-- said that the pamphlet ivas not written by M • Donis-a, slr Kirkbi Ide : "Ifc

was distributed by Mr Donne." "No one takes it seriorsly," said Mr Massey. When the Minister commenced to further excuse the pamphlet Mr Kirkbride said part of what he had quoted was from the pen of Mr Donne, and Mr Donne was responsible for the compilation of the pamphlet. After some further discussion the clause passed unaltered.