DIFFERENT TYPES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3938, 4 May 1929, Page 1

DIFFERENT TYPES.

“Now Zealanders, whose climate presents no great difference from that of England-one may say that the cliimiate in the South Island resembles that of the southern half of England, while that of the North Island is rather warmer — I New Zealanders approximate to Englishmen. English customs and ’traditions a're far (more generally and closely Observed in New Zealand than in Australia. Australians are more independent, more outspoken, more critical, more iconoclastic, much ‘harder boiled,’ more casual, more daring, more picturesque, and they are just a little more inclined to consider these characteristics as positive virtues. New Zealanders are quieter in manner, more- stolid, in solme ways more -'dependable.. These divergencies may - he traced in part to climate, in palrt to the life and the men of the early days; to a, smaller extent, to the difference in the native races and to the fact that Australia has been, much more than New Zealand, inliueq'eed iby the United States; and,-’ of course, to the excessive gro'wth of the city populations in Australia as compared with those in the,Dominion. You will find that both Australian and New Zealander are proud of the differentiation, that each loves the Mother Country (though the former is shy of admitting his affection), that each has a distinctive (but not, according to the Englishman, a distinguished) accent, -which, he considers vastly preferable to the Oxford accent; that both Australian and New Zealandei, when they come to live in England, for some time, are slow to assimilate English manners, nuances, •opinions, hut that when they do begin to' da-so they are .apt to become profound? adinirers, affd warm defenders of all that is English—‘more English than the English.’” .—From “Glimpses,” by Corrie Dennison.