DOMINION APPRECIATED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19379, 17 July 1937, Page 16

DOMINION APPRECIATED

NOT PART OF AUSTRALIA CANON'S EXPERIENCE (•Special to thu Jlurnlil.) AUCKLAND, this day. “People are at last beginning to realise that New Zealand is not a part of Australia, although they still ask how often the ferry runs there,” said Canon D. Haultain, vicar of All Saints Church, Nelson, who returned by the Arawa yesterday after a visit to England. “New Zealand stands very high in tire estimation of the English people, and there is a genuine appreciation of New Zealanders and all that they represent.” Canon Haultain added that New Zealand produce was wen advertised in England. It was an interesting fact to find New Zealanders resident there demanding nothing bui New Zealand meat or dairy produce, or fruit.

From what he knew of applegrowing in Nelson, some of the apples sold in the shops and labelled "New Zealand-grown” were not the genuine article.

Referring to the conditions of church life in England, Canon Haultain sain that it was much like anywhere else when real live spiritual leadership was revealed. The church was very much alive. It was a unique and gratifying experience to have to queue up to get into churches for ordinary service. This happened at St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, where the Rev. Pat McCormick was the preacher, and at the City Temple, where the Rev. Leslie Weatherhcad was preaching, there was a queue of people two deep for several hundred yards on either side of the door three-quarters of an hour before the service was due to begin.