BOOSTING NEW ZEALAND.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 41, 11 June 1914, Page 4

BOOSTING NEW ZEALAND.

Mr George Dewe, formerly of Christchurch, who is now settled in Edmonton, one of the most progressive towns in Western Canada, has constituted himself a sort of honorary trade commissioner for New Zealand in the great Dominion and writing to the editor of the "Lyttelton Times" he again urges that a systematic effort should be made to "boost" the resources of this country all through the American continent. "Many New Zealanders," he says, "have an idea that their Dominion is well and favorably known abroad, since the tour of the famous All Blacks to the Mother Country a few years ago, Sir Joseph Ward's gift of a Dreadnought, and the sending of several contingents of New Zealanders to the Boer War. I freely confess to sharing that opinion when I resided in Christchurch, but I have to say now that it is truly astonishing how little one hears of the island Dominion inj this country. As I wrote you before rarely do we ever get a New Zealand item in any.of the Canadian papers, and frequently I meet and talk with people, otherwise well-informed, who are totally ignorant of the fact that for years New Zealand has been shipping big quantities of frozen meat, the finest of butter and other products, to their own country." Mr Dewe goes on to explain that in all the big Canadian cities there are "boosting associations" and "advertising jjlubs," composed of citizens of all shades of political opinion, who devote themselves to singing the praises of the country and making its attractions knowri to the outside world. "Christchurch citizens," he concludes, "should take the hint and noise abroad the many attractions of their beautiful city, in many respects one of the most desirable places of residence the heart of man can desire."