TEMPERATE NEW ZEALAND.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIV, Issue 819, 16 November 1905, Page 24

TEMPERATE NEW ZEALAND.

The New Zealand “Times” recently published an account of an interview with Mr James S. McConechie, representative for the Manchester Ship Canal, who has been long enough and has travelled sufficiently in the colony to gain many impressions. After saying many nice things of the colony and its people, Mr McConechie goes on to remark how particularly he is struck with the temperate nature of the people of New Zealand, and adds, “I don’t think I’ve ever been anywhere where I’ve seen so little drinking. I’ve been living in hotels ever since T’ye been in the colony, and I really don’t believe I’ve seen half-a-dozen ‘ Whiskies and sodas ’ drunk. There may be drinking, but I have not seen it, and the impression I have gained is that the people as a whole must be very temperate.”