AS OTHERS SEE US.

Thames Star, Volume LXI, Issue 17051, 3 December 1927, Page 5

AS OTHERS SEE US.

VISITOR’S ! IMPRESSIONS

DARK SIDE OF THE PICTURE. *

In a long article contributed to the Exeter Express and Echo, the writer, who is at present in. New Zealand, concludes by pointing out the inevitable dark side of the picture. “New Zealand,” lie writes, “does not always appear entitled to Haunt its newest publicity slogan ‘Paradise of the Pacific.’ Unemployment has risen to alarming figures; . never in the history of the country has distress been so prevalent as in the few years just passed. And—unprecedented cle!—the critics have been forced , to open relief depots foi; the help of the ' needy. For th first time New Zealanders have seen queues of workless people asking charity. One of the causes of it all is undoubtedly the flood of immigrants that has swamped the labour market since the war. In the face of this, the Government has, for a time at least, restricted the number of immigrants. “To-day, in spite of outward signs of prosperity, New Zealand is not so abundantly wealthy as in pre-war days. In spite of publicity, the country is not progressing with the leans it measured some years '•ago. Those statements would doubtless cause on uproar in Wellington parliamentary circles, hut they are true. The future, however, is bright. Periods of depression pass, and New Zealand has every confidence in her British abilities. A great race is growing up in the Dominion, side by side with the wonderful Maori nation that has held the islands since days of the Norman conquest. From the great things that have been”accomplished in the past, the greater things to come may be inferred.”