N.Z. NEWSPAPERS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 October 1925, Page 4

N.Z. NEWSPAPERS.

FOOD AVOII i) FOR DOMINION*. A I'OK LAND. October ti. Vi-iiors If. in overseas fre,picul !.\ mention the loss New Zealand stiileis through lack ol advertising in the northern hemisphere, so it is relreshiog to hear that there is. one channel through which the attractions ol the Dominion arc made known over a very wide area, this channel being New Zealand newspaper.-.. This was the o; iuion expressed by Colonel ('. 11. Meatcs, who is well-known in thi - (■«■}•,!nl.rv ilirnnhis jissocintion v.itli ('apt.'tin Scott’s Antarctic expedition. Colonel Mcares went south with >coit j M tf;|n in charge of the potties and do-,-s. which played such an important part in the great dash to the Pole. Pfe has been living for some years at Cannes, in h ranee. and although that countrv appealed to hint as an attractive place in which to make his honelie has come to New Zealand with th idea, of sot din;; here should ii come up to all Ins expectations. He is not altogether a si ranger to New Zealand, lor lie saw something oi the South Island wh.cn, with other m, :,di"i-. of the « xpedidon. he ret urned l i,.;n die Antarctic, hut he li.nl never visited otic North Island lie lore stepping elf the ’lnina a! Am aland. accompanied by Mr, .Means. Colonel ,\li ares came down from A uiuouvor by i. o mail I.oat sonm wicks ago. landing at Suva, where he and Mr,-. Men res joined the To lea tor the round trip to Tonga and Samoa, thence back to Suva and on to Auckland. " What wonderful newspapers you have in this country.’’ said Colonel Mi ares. “When we were m I’rit i■- h Columbia we found that we could gel a bettor idea of what tv a going on in rite wot Id l,y reading; Now /calami now-papers dan from many Canadian paper-; that we saw." 'I he toiler reiniiked on the variety anil iniormat.ivo nature of the news presented. The admirable -tame of dm Into ! Captain Scott', erect ml on the hank ol die titer Avon in Oxford Terrace. Cpipi.-- 1 mliu it!■ , was also mentioned by ( oh me] A|i at':":, who said lie had heard n -poken of in many (planers by people ttlin had vi-iicd New Zealand. l , ’i , om ihe Ireiment reference-: to its beauty and iinioiie setting lie thought that this lun-i he the most di-eit—-'cd statue of die present day.