WARNED AGAINST INSULAR OUTLOOK.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19240, 29 November 1930, Page 33 (Supplement)

WARNED AGAINST INSULAR OUTLOOK.

MUST BE BROAD IN N.Z., SAYS LORD BLEDISLOE. “If there is one danger which this country has to face in common with Great Britain, it is the danger of insularity,” said his Excellency the Governor-General speaking at the opening of the additions to the Rangiora High School experimental farm yesterday. “I mean not only geographical insularity, which may be, and we thinkin the Old-Land is, a source of strength but insularity of outlook and objective which may prove to be a serious handi cap to national development.” They were, he said, working towards a very great ideal, and he was particularly glad to see that that ideal was being favoured by those in authority in this country as Ministers of the Crown and highly-placed Departmental officers, and also by the sympathy and generous support of people in the district —parents, employers and local bodies. Surely the objective of a school war similar to that of a farm or factory —to turn out sound products of good quality for which there would always be a ready demand at remunerative prices. The raw material might be good, and so far as human raw inater'al was concerned there was no country in the world comparable with New Zealand.