MRS AMERY ON HER TOUR

Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1928, Page 2

MRS AMERY ON HER TOUR

IMPRESSIONS OK THE DOMINIONS LONDON, November 10. flood Housekeeping for October contains an attractively written and interesting article by Airs L. S. Ainery, who gives some impressions of the seven months’ Empire tour made with her husband about a year ago. At the end of the journey the travellers were eonsr.’ons of the inspiration that comes from moving among people who are building up magnificent countries. They are doing it itfypircd by the highest ideals 'for the future of their nations, as well as by the practical desire to make life wholesome, agreeable, and interesting for the present. Airs Amcry calls herself a bit of an idealist and so cannot but bo moved by the spirit that animates these young nations, and she proceeds: Young they are and old at the same time, old in the tradition and I."story that is ours here in Great Britain. And indeed there is not one of them now that has not its own noble - tradition ol achievementand sacrifice gained* in the Great War. They gave nil they had, not grudgingly nor of necessity, but lor the good of the world, of their own peoples, and tor a cause they believed right and honourable and just. Nowhere does romance seem more thrilling than in the adventures of Captain Cook, and of the early governors and squatters. They have inherited and taken with them the wealth of literature, art, music, poetry of this old country. They love, appreciate, and criticise it in as healthy and wholesome a spirit as exists anywhere. In each dominion there is a spirit of art. of literature, ol poetry that is based on the best in all the world, and that shows the influence of the transplanting of human and spiritual beings to a- new environment. There is the youth and strength and freshness off. outlook of men and women, a large proportion of whom are dealing with Nature in its pnm-

ilive form and moulding it to their I use and that of the children. And j there is a feeling of achievement they are doing it they are there—they will remain. j ! lo\! * t lie doiiii uions and tin* | golden-lie:;rted, sensitive people who | live* l lie re. Ibi eh has an individuality as strong as lha! of a human being: and each for its virtues and i its faults is iovable. ( PERSONALITY THAT CDI'NIS. \ •• I wish i could pat on paper ail i . feel about it all. the spirit that: is animating ibvm all. lor wlmther they have ups and downs and everybody i and every country v.id have them— | they are full of determinal : on, each j and everyone, to make their country I great, in the best sens", prosperous and ’lovable. And the way tin* same spirit spreads throughout Fn ■•land. New Zealand. Canada. Scot hi ltd. re v s one deeply as one travels from “lid to end feeling it alive everywhere, everywhere you Jind young Fuglis-limmi Scots, and Irish over the seas making a life for themselves. '! lie openings on tin* land are many: and it is personality that counts, and no calling, to say nothing of li'*all!i and ph.vsi iiie. than farming, it is a man s hie. ;ml it is a woman’s hie. CM course, there are times when it is a hard lil<*. hut there are compensations. A our house is your own, and you have Helds and gardens to move and breathe in. Also, as many a new settler said to me, ‘look at the children.’ “ In every dominion there are people of means and leisure who lorni themselves voluntarily into groups to welcome the settlers, to send them off to their homes and to keep in touch with thorn.” Among monte! o.etiiros peruiauenl impressed. Airs Amery mentions the Karitam* i ; me.- < ■ New Ze -land, and the porfoot dri\ ■ t hr-rngh fk ■ Ik Ike (forge, which will give New Zeabmd pages in the poetry and k’storv <>| the world, just as much as the picturesque .Maori shearing s'-enes • n the vast sheds of the North Island.

On; F.CONO.M 1C I'NIT.

' The key to the article is to he ifottiu! in the query —“to he practical wheat'

(ki we come in—in all the glittering luges of the world's history which are daily unfoldingk ” In addition to tile unexplainable uniting bond, there is lb •. I act that tiie .Mother Country is the natural market for the dominion's feeds! nil’s, which every year are being produced in such quantities. ■■They need stability of market: to know where they are going to sell," s; ys the writer. "We must buy; why not buy all they can sell us before we look elsewhere! J It takes ships to Icing sultanas from Creese and ships to bring them lr>m Australia. All the arguments, not excluding that ol < h aiiliness, arc on the side ol C e Alls ti: linn t hen let them lave the first chance. Hritain needs so much that .\ r (an ne'er ptodiuc herself, and the more we get I rum the llritishers over the seas, and the more certain it is ii! tlic'in that we mean to get it, the (•keeper it becomes. Air Fold made a lor! mu because, knowing he* could sell la re,* number:-; of motors, lie unde Idiom in quant it ics, and so was able to do it i ia-aply. "The women are the real ( haneellurs of tile Exchequer : they spend tin* n n v of the country day by day. Then |f they determine to do it so that tkeir own kinsmen overseas shall know 1 1, 11 vie mean to trade with them so long as they give us good value lor our m mey. it will not matter what olltei influences there are; we snail stand as one economic: unit.”