PRAISE FOR NEW ZEALAND

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19125, 21 September 1936, Page 4

PRAISE FOR NEW ZEALAND

CANADIAN’S COMMENT HOTELS EXCELLENT “I have been greatly impressed by certain aspects of national development here,” said the Rt. Hon. It. B. Bennett, Leader of the Opposition in the Canadian Parliament, on arrival at Dunedin. “New Zealand is certainly entitled to be proud of what it has achieved, but you must admit it has great advantages. “Of course you are like the rest of us in that you are exposed to the inevitable game of the markets, but, unlike my own country and Australia, you do not have to sustain the dual uncertainty of fluctuating markets and climatic vagary. The markets may be good to Canada and Australia, but the climate may be unkind. You have production always with you, like the poor, and if the markets are right, you must be right. The difficulty ivith us is that when the markets are right production may be all wrong. I cannot conceive any uncertainty ot production in a country which at its most inland point is within easy' distance of the Pacific Ocean.

“I believe the tourist traffic will yet be a much greater asset to New Zealand than it is at present,” continued Mr. Bennett. “I would like to comment on your living conditions, and hotel accommodation. They are excellent, and a tourist can rely on getting every service at a most reasonable cost. I have been surprised to learn in the different places I have visited of the amazingly low price the visitor has to pay for things he wants. One gets every service and is charged much less than anywhere else.” -

In conclusion, Mr. Bennett said he was greatly impressed by what New Zealand was doing, and he had been more than gratified to observe such devotion to the Crown on the one hand and such acceptance of the responsibilities of nationhood on the other as existed in New Zealand.