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New Zealand Land Of 200 Barefooted Savage Inhabitants

New Zealand was a small place somewhere at the South Pole. It had 200 barefooted inhabitants who did not live in proper houses. They could not speak English. That was the impression of her home country which astonished Mrs T. J.| Sweeney in Hartford, Connecticut, America, when she left New Zealand to live there four years ago. 'Mrs Sweeney married an American serviceman, and has returned to spend six months with her parents, Mr and Mrs F. W. Pye, of Mercer Road, Herne Bay. “There is one thing I would like to emphasise,” said Mrs Sweeney, in an interview. “Greater publicity is needed for New Zealand in America. Scenic films would help. I found that, to the people there, New Zealand did not mean a thing. At first, when my husband’s friends came to our home, they did not address me at all—they thought I could not speak English.”

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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 97, 13 February 1950, Page 8

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New Zealand Land Of 200 Barefooted Savage Inhabitants Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 97, 13 February 1950, Page 8

New Zealand Land Of 200 Barefooted Savage Inhabitants Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 97, 13 February 1950, Page 8

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