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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 3, 21 January 1904, Page 30

Miss Constance Barnicoat, who, you will remember (says the ' Free Lance '), took a trip round New Zealand a while back with the intention of finding out something about the denizens of her native land, got back to London and launched her thunderbolts. She tells people, in am article, the somewhat weafry ta?e about people going to Queensland being given letters of introduction to people living in New Zealand. She says that ladies have to make their own soap, and cure their own bacon. The infant New Zealander, in the eyes of Constance, staggers humanity. ' One wonders if they are the worst brought-up children in the world.' Miss Barnicoat, being a New Zealand ' brought-up ' child, should have some acquaintance with herself. . . The lady launches this as a parting shot : • New Zealand, in fact, except in certain parts, is no paradise for anyone bait the workingman ; not even a climatic paradise.' Poor place as New Zealand is, it has the high honor of having produced Miss Barnicoat, without -whose guidance life here would be but a howling waste. Thank goodness, there is a regular mail running between New Zealand and Old England.