OUT OF SIGHT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1578, 23 October 1912, Page 7

OUT OF SIGHT.

_a THROUGH LONDON'S SPECTACLES. Writing about the articles which have appeared in certain English papers giving an altogether erroneous impression of the working of the compulsory Defence scheme in New Zealand, a Wellington' citizen now in-London states:— "These people do not cave a straw what may happen in the overseas Dominions. Jinny do not know where they are, and careless. I've had it thrown up to me twice lately that if these places are such great and prosperous places, why do they want so many English peoplo to go out there. They are for the most part incapable of a broad Imperial outlook, would never realise that we stand to lose these rich and beautiful Domiqions if they are not populated, and that it is population that improves and enriches a country. One very annoying thing here is to find that generally New Zealand is regarded as part of Australia. Perhaps tho new Commissioner will at least sco that wo are kept distinct. Canada and Australia do advertise well. Their exhibits in windows in tho main streets of the citv are an education alnue, ii.variably attracting crowds of people. A ustratia has a huge hoarding on a corner of the section where the Commonwealth Government's new building is being erected in tho Strand, on which is displayed daily a largo bulletin (frequently changed) setting forth the., advantages of life in Australia. The hoarding is brilliantly illuminated at night. Canada, with its four or five months of snowy winter, and Australia with its hot, droughty summers, nro taking tens of thousands of good immigrants—New Zealand, with its entire absence from those deterrents, seems to be 11 good deal out of sight.

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