GOODWILL ABROAD.
“I found the name ‘New Zealander’ an open sesame everywhere,” said Mr A. B. Thompson, of the Seddon Memorial Technical College, who returned to Auckland by the Niagara after a year’s tour of Europe n . North America under a Carnegie fellowship. “When they found that 1 came from this country, people could not do enough for me. The Germans were particularly kind, and everyone I met treated me with the utmost friendliness and goodwill, it was interesting to find that they had put English in the foremost place as a foreign language in their schools instead of French. It is compulsory in niany cases, and so many Germans spoke it that my way was quite easy. 7 ’
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13643, 30 August 1937, Page 2
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