SNOBBERY IN SMALL TOWNS.
Is there snobbery in our small towns ? The following paragraph taken from a Home paper,, giving a visitor’s impressions of New Zealand, may he ot interest to our readers : *'l,ife in New Zealand presents many remarkable aspects, but what will, perhaps, strike a visitor most is the peculiar snobbishness to be found in its villages. In some of these little communities many of the residents have never been distant for more than a few miles from their own doorsteps, and to their environment is no doubt due the caddishness and small mindedness that is so noticeable. To an onlooker the self-sufficiency of’these rural inhabitants is truly diverting. They are as a rule divided into little sets or cliques, and it would be quite derogatory for Mrs Jones ol No. x to speak to Mrs Brown of No. 2. A little experience of the world would be in vain Pole to these good people in showing them how very small they really are.” Our readers will agree that snobbishness does not exist in dear little Foxtou !
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1194, 10 January 1914, Page 4
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179SNOBBERY IN SMALL TOWNS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1194, 10 January 1914, Page 4
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