As Others See Us.

Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 19351, 7 March 1935, Page 3

As Others See Us.

N.Z.'S DIFFERENT TYPES.

AUCKLAND LIKE SYDNEY.

A VISITOR'S IMPRESSIONS

(Special to Star).

AUCKLAND, March 7.

"There are distinctly four different types of people in New Zealand," remarked-' Mr. E. 0. Erickson, of Melbourne, who returned, yesterday from a four weeks' tour of the Dominion. "New Zealanders would not notice it, perhaps, as much as dues a stranger, but the people of Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland are quite different, though all have one trait in common —they are most friendly and hospitable." "In Dunedin," said Mr. Erickson, "I met the Scotsman, very hospitable, quite talkative in a dour, sober ■way and a stickler for the proprieties; in Christchurch the pepole are very English and very conservative. Wellington is another Canberra, populated in the main by civil servants, very busy and very full of 'affairs of State,' and full, also, of their oAvn importance. "Auckland would be my choice of a city. It is much like Sydney, easy-going and cosmopolitan, yet, at the same time, the most progressive of all. As in Sydney, I have met men here wearing nine-guinea suits, made-to-measure shoes, and a wide grin, whom you could take by the heels and shake upside down, and not turn a threepenny bit out of their pockets."