Praise For New Zealand.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 January 1913, Page 4

Praise For New Zealand.

Mr Xornian McMunn, 8.A., of Stratford-on-Avon, who resolvod at a moment's notice to make a trip to New Zealand for the benofit of his health, writing to liis people in England, says there is a strange sweetness in the absence of all class distinction which lie found in New Zealand. Ho adds: "I sat at the same table in one ol" the leading boarding-houses of Auckland—a refined and .charming home it was— with ian army officer, a railway guard, a head of a Government Dopartment, an Indian officer's widow and a telegraph boy. There was no constraint, no contempt, no servile admiration. It wns a table of men and women transformed by mutual respect and goodwill into gentlemen and gentlewomen in the only good and noble sense of the word. In New Zealand thero is really nothing to correspond with the co-called low or classes- in England. The colon ial workng man, is far nioro nearly the equivalent of tho small shop keeper or tho pofst office clerk in England. Such is New Zealand, n country whero the poor, tho eccen trie, even tho social pariah will liav« his chance; whero, side by side with a physical and moral manliness, is to be found pity and forgiveness for all. Of course, all euch things aro relative, but in no country lwve I found them so finely developed as in Now Zealand. If tho people <ire a little puritanical it is because they ait n practical people, 'and not because they are a race of hypocrites."