ENGLISHMEN AND NEW ZEALANDERS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13531, 28 February 1908, Page 2

ENGLISHMEN AND NEW ZEALANDERS.

(To the Editor of the " Timaru Herald.'") Sir, —Having read with much amusement the article England Xew Zealand, 1 must inform the writer that it has so impressed me that I am sending a copy of it home to receive publication where the writer wiil get the ridicule lie well deserves. To compare an Englishman's intellect with a Xew Zealander's is sheer folly. Whom does Xew Zealand depend on but the old country for everything;' Xo public works can be started unkii.s someone from the- old country has to be asked to give his opinion. And so with everything. Xew Zealand' is only in its infancy and lias much to learn, l'erhaps the writer would like to compai e tlio railway travelling in Xew Zealand with England. The fast express of Xew Zealand averages 25 mile an hour, but a slow express would take you 60 miles in England and the fastest 80 miles an hour. As to manners I ,mav add that- in no town or village of England would you find ont of the lowest class ride a bicycle on a footpath, not caring whom they push by. And as to drunkenness I have seen more ill this village of Timaru during my stay than I have ever 'seen in' any town in the old country. It is true there is much poverty in England and much here I should say, but things are worked on different lines t-liere. The shopkeeper is not made to suffer a s lie is out- here. If we had not smart clothes to pur on, we wait- until we can pay for them, and therefore carry our poverty on our backs, which is no disgrace.—l am, etc., AX EXGEISHWOMAX WHO IS PROUD OF THE: OLD COUXTRY.