"WHERE OUR YOUNG MEN GO."

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 968, 8 November 1910, Page 4

"WHERE OUR YOUNG MEN GO."

NEW ZEALANDBRS IN AUSTRALIA. (By Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.) Auckland, November 7. "I do not think that I have ever seen Australia looking half as well before," was tho remark made to a "Herald" representative yesterday by Mr. J. M. Mennie on his return from a month's holiday visit to Sydney and Melbourne. Mr. Mennie is an old Australian* and having visited the Commonwealth every year during the past five or sis years, he is able to speak with knowledge of the remarkable prosperity that is now apparent in both Sydney and Melbourne. The respite from the periodical droughts, combined with the great productivity or the country, is having an effect which is reflected in a marked degree in the two great cities. Building, Mr. Mennie stated, is proceeding at a rapid rate in botli centre?, tho activity being perhaps more marked in Sydney, where an extensive programme of improvement work is being carried out, including _ the clearing out of slum areas, the widening of streets, and general civic improvements. _ A point in connection with his visit which is not so satisfactory to New Zealand as to Australia was remarked upon by Mr. Mennie. '~,„, ~ "I was very much struck, he paid, "with' the large number of young few Zealanders who have been born and tied and educated in this. country, but who have made their homo in Australia. In one boardinghouse alone in Melbourne there are at present no fewer" than U New Zealanders. These young fellows are all doing well on the other side, but it seems a pity after we have gone to .the expense of bringing up and educating a fine lot of young fellows that when they are able to do something for themselves they should bo seeking -an outlet tor their onorgies in Australia, and this at a time when wo aro calling out for more immigration."