LIFE IN NEW ZEALAND

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19098, 20 August 1936, Page 14

LIFE IN NEW ZEALAND

LONDON SUPPLEMENT DEVELOPMENT TOLD Informative special articles relating to New Zealand’s development and her economic, political and social life are contained in a special supplement published by the Daily Telegraph, London, on July 13. On the front page of the supplement there are articles by the Prime Minister, the Rt. lion. M. J. Savage, and the Secretary of State tor the Dominions, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, together with an artist’s sketch of Parliament Buildings as they will appear when finished. Other contributors include Ministers of the Crown, the High Commissioner for New Zealand in London, Sir James Parr, the ex-Spealcer of the House of Representatives, Sir Charles Statham, ■the president of the New Zealand Newspaper Proprietors’ Association, Mr. C. W. Earle, officials of State departments, economists, Mr. Alan Mulgan, Mr. James Cowan and authoritative writers on various subjects. A feature of the publication is the attractive display and general layout.

“New Zealand ladens the Briton’s table with meat, butter and other dairy produce, and in return she is per capita Britain’s best customer, for it is from this country that half her imports come,’’ states the Daily Telegraph, which points out that the New Zealander has held his close attachment to the parent land in spite of the fact that his is the farthermost Dominion from the Homeland. The Daily Telegraph adds that in view of the .concern felt in New Zealand’s demand that the interest on her outstanding loans should be lowered, it was satisfactory to have her Prime Minister’s assurance in his message (published in the Dominion on July 16) that any' modifications would be sought and agreed to only on a free and voluntary basis. BOND WITH HOMELAND

“The mutual benefits of trade are inseparable from, the cordial understanding and fellowship which exist between New Zealand and the Home Country,” writes Mr. MacDonald, who states the articles will bring to the notice of the Homeland in particular what was one of the Empire s greatest assets—a young and vital people in a rich, progressive land “How strong the bond between us is cannot be wholly learned from our trade, in spire of the fact that 80 per cent of New Zealand exports go to Britain and 60 per cent of her imports come from Britain. For the true strength of the bond is not material.

“I have,” says Mr. MacDonald, “pleasant memories of my own two visits to New Zealand; of the places whose names were native music, and of those others which call to mind the towns of Homeland; of the loveliness of the land and the happy friendliness of both the Maori and the pakeha. My visits gave me a better understanding of the Dominion and of those who dwell there.”

The Daily Telegraph’s onto rprise i:i publishing the supplement should gif'* 1 the people of the Old Country a better knowledge and understanding of Now Zoaland.