A VISITOR'S PRAISES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1022, 11 January 1911, Page 5

A VISITOR'S PRAISES.

<foR. BEEBY ON NEW ZEALAND. jsy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Rec. January 10, 10.40 p.m.) : j .' : Sydney, January 10. ..Mr,; Beeb'y, State for Educaiion and Labour, has, returned from his .visit,to New Zealand with' Highly favourable impressions'' of 'the' country. . He Hold , aii interviewer; that what':', had im-' -.pressed hiqi most was; the .entite ;'absence K)f any signs of poverty or distress. Even •in. tHe larger. centres.; of population there jwasi ho "evidence, of any! form 'of them. Tbuching/ industrial;; legislation Mr. Bteby said that from what he saw ho was' satisfied;, that if' the New South ■Wales-Government can come up to the New " Zealand standard during the next three years a great work'will have been accomplished, The Dominion is far more advanced industrially than New South .Wales. ' ■ The. outstanding'features in.the Government pplicy •of administering the. laws was- its broad sympathetic treatment of every..-industrial . law which was treated ■ as .'an actual .reality,.,both sides being compelled fairly and honestly to observe the laws as passed. • '■ . Mr. Beeliy was also favourably struck jwith the working of the Government Insurance. .Office. l ;Ins foreshadowing the reorganisation of the; New South 'Wales Department of, Industry and Labour .the Minister declared that; he did- not -think the Government could improve much on the New .Zealand- system. . '