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Marlborough Express, Volume LX, Issue 230, 29 September 1926, Page 4

In the course of an address at a meeting of the Soutliland League, Mr O. J. Brodrick gave two illustrations of the ignorance of some oi the English people concerning New Zealand. "Generally speaking,' he said, "New Zealand is Avell known 111 England. It has been wonderlully ad vertised by the soldiers and the football teams, and English people seem to tliink that it's a wonclerfully nice place. 1 came across two instances, howevet, wliere New Zealand had been too well _ advertised. I was fishing on a locli in Scotland when I ivent over to look at a- very large concrete dam tliat was bemg built. The contractor, a man in a big way of business — tbe contraet was for £30,000— was very kind to me and showed me all over tlie dain. At the conclusion he remarked, 'I showed another New Zealander over here yesterday.' On my asking what part of New Zealand the man came from, the contractor said that he had come from Soutli Africa. When I was going over Bamborough Castle in North nmberl and tlie janitor's wife asked me where 'I came from, and when I stated that I wa® a New Zealander, said: 'Dear me, you'll have no castles like this in Oanada.,' " i