MORE KIDNEY-PIE FOR NEW ZEALANDERS

Grey River Argus, 27 March 1948, Page 3

MORE KIDNEY-PIE FOR NEW ZEALANDERS

LONDON, March 22. Mr John Green in a 8.8. C. Third Programme broadcast, said: “If Australia is a country of impulse, New Zealand, by contrast, is a country n-f thought, a classical land, intensely conscious of the world." New Zealand seemed rather nuzzled and worried bv leaving anything to chance. The New Zealander seemed nrecisely afraid lest personality, in practice, should drift from its anchorage in character. New Zealand was “nolitically capricious” with a “chronic social precocity.” A most significant fact was that New Zealand’s reformers had never been New Zealanders. He thought that, individually. the New Zealander was a most delightful person, but that collectively lite nation was smug. By spurning individual distinction she was producing a population that was statistically average. The New Zealander’s complacency had not bred slothfulness or indifference. The New Zealander remained courteous, willing, and in the sense that. William of Wykeham believed that “manners maketh man”, had “the best manners that exist on the world frontier’s.”

Considering the positive contribution New Zealand has made to the world in 100 years, Mr Green mentioned: (1) the example of living in charity with a native people; (2) having produced in three wars a citizen army with attributes only pected of a corps d’elite; (3) an educational system which Lord Rutherford,