NEW ZEALAND PRAISED
SPEECH BY LORD BLEDISLOE.
HIGH EDUCATION STANDARD.
(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) London, July 19.
“I endorse Mr Forbes’s regret that members of the British Cabinet lack personal knowledge of the Dominions. Their ignorance is no more marked than concerning New Zealand,” said Lord Bledisloe, speaking at the Empire Society’s summer school. Yet the Empire’s future rested predominantly in their hands. If their knowledge was secondhand and scanty, the British proletariat and members of the House of Commons were still more ignorant, seriously threatening ultimate Dominion separation. Lord Bledisloe paid a tribute to New Zealand, a country of Nature’s gentlefolk, and socially, almost ideally, democratic. The average standard of education was very high. The reading of books and newspapers was more widespread than elsewhere in the Empire. Even the poorest were generally well-informed of the nation’s and world affairs. Courtesy and good manners were universal. There was very little swearing and drunkenness, while a shabbily dressed person was seldom seen.
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Southland Times, Issue 25342, 22 July 1935, Page 7
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