IMPRESSIONS OF NEW ZEALAND.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8781, 8 April 1907, Page 3

IMPRESSIONS OF NEW ZEALAND.

‘ ‘ Having just returned from an extensive tour” of New Zealand, the editor of the Mutual Provident'Messenger lias written in the March number of that leaflet a thoroughly interesting account of the natural wonders of New Zealand. ‘ ‘ Sheep, ’ ’ ho says, “have been sold as low as Is per head for removal to the North Island.’’ The effect of “prohibition” is particularly bad : ‘ ‘ Even in 1 mousing districts the fear of prohibition prevents hotel proprietors from making any groat exertions or incurring any material expense in order to contribute to the comfort of visitors.” The railway accommodation is wholly inadequate and the management extremely inefficient, the hotels are models of discomfort, and the nnfortnntae population, instead of "living the higher life, are so lost to their nuworthiness that they appear content to spend their time and money in riding down waterchutes anil toboggan slides. It is not surprising, therefore, that the alarmed visitor thinks that “under existing conditions few visitors will risk a second visit. ” No montiou"is made of the hostile natives and the Socialist outrages.