ENGLAND AND NEW ZEALAND CONTRASTED.
— . ♦ The contrast betwocn the state of affairs m Great Britain and New Z rand strikes a colonial visitor at once Tho Rev H, Vere White, late of Wgllington, writes as follows to the Nevj Zealand Times: — "Yon are ail m New Zealand still compla-ning of ' dcpresßion,' but I can hardly help smiling when r think of the difEorence between your social, utaie and o«r«. Here we a*-© surrounded by poverty totally unlike anything I ever «nw m New Zna and. The people are not starving, but they live m a very unisera lo way aa regards food, clothing, and housing ; and the worst of it is that they have nothing to look 'or'-ard to. A laborer at 20 years of age is a< his best Ho has youth «nd strength, and because unmarried, mor<' money than he ever will have a?ain He con only ! ook through a long vista of years of hard work to the poorhouse as a goal."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1448, 5 January 1887, Page 3
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165ENGLAND AND NEW ZEALAND CONTRASTED. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1448, 5 January 1887, Page 3
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