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Shannon News, 10 January 1922, Page 3

On the deck of the Paloona Sir Arthur Conan Uoyle wrote his farewell to the Dominion: “Farewell, New Zealand! I shall never see you again, but perhaps some memory of my visit may remain—-or not, as God pleases. Aniyhow, my own memory will remain. Every man looks on his own country as God’s own country if u he a free land, hut the New Zealander has more reason than most. It. is a lovely place, and contains within its moderate limits the agricultural plains of England, the lake and hills of Scotland, the glaciers of Switzerland, and the fiords of' Norway, with fine, hearty people, who do not treat the British newcomer with ignorant contempt or hostility. There are so many interests and so many openings that it is hard to think that a man will not- find a career in New Zealand. Canada, Australia, and South Africa seem to me to be closely balanced, so far as their attractions for the emigrant goes, but when one considers that New Zealand has neither the winter of Canada, the droughts of Australia, nor the racial problems of Africa, it does surely stand supreme, though it demands, as all of them do, both labour and capital from the newcomer.”