REAL NEW ZEALAND

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6442, 24 January 1924, Page 7

REAL NEW ZEALAND

Our people do not desire that the outside world should think of New Zealand as “Maoriland”, or as a country notable for fiords, forests, alps, and geysers; but as a country in which Maoris and scenery , are but 'picturesque details. The points to be Emphasised are that the population is almost exactly the same in race and blood as the population of the United Kingdom, that there are no extremes of poverty and wealth, that the land is covered with a network of railways and roads, and that its population of a million and a quarter is as busily engaged in production as any population under the sun—that it is a modern State, in fact, rich in resources and busily developing them. —Christchurch Press.