SOME PRAISE FOR NEW ZEALAND.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 401, 4 October 1911, Page 5

SOME PRAISE FOR NEW ZEALAND.

New Zealand has Buffered a little in reputation sometime.' - ., .according to the Boston Monitor, because she has I.eel; e\j - ctid to live up to till! ideals created hy <>v. r-enthusiastic admirors. Bui tb<- American journal has plenty of prai: e 'or .la dominion and its people. "New Zealand has never been a land e.! dreams or dreamers," n marked the Monitor, a lew weeks , ol.un.seil by a high aver.;:- o: rai ioiial human beings, and 'beai hen. time to time have adopted ;:.i ;! r oe . r ;, ; ! suited to their di siror asm to tic i r needs. The great ad\"an(aa. they have enjoyed and the j'n at :in « ." they have achieved are belli do in the fact; that, having the rj. lit mat; rial to start, with, they started riirlit. Few communities that; !iav Hi -v. i, or have attempted to i.e .i. :iio,ig progressive lines have ]i;,i; so lilt!e i» undo. Each step has be< n taken with care and dnlibcrat ion, and every step has been prompted by the desire t<> make New Zealand a better country for New Z"alanders than far amy individual or any group of individuals." '1 he Boston newsper r. which pays more attention to N, v 7,inilaml and Australia than no aay of its contemporaries in the Enited States, proceeds to tell its la adcrs that the Dominion is, speakin;; relatively, "a land of thrift, of industry, of competence, of equitable distribution." 'The individual citizen does 1 not. seem to he "out for himself" or "blindly seeking the main chance." Bitter, strenuous competition is not necessary under the New Zealand ayst< ;o. and this iaet "explains the comparative. freedom of New Zealand political and commercial life from v, hat Americans denominate as

gnu' l -." In conclusion, this. friendly critic predicts that the Dominion will solve its pi nblen.s along the line.;? it lias already adopted, and will be "an object la-son to modern civilisation"' as a country wlrre the first consideration of the citiz. n in the good of the public. New Zealand will find it hard to deserve all the pleasant things said about, it by its friends, hut it ia willing to try.