Is “Noo Zeland” Part of Australia?

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 300, 10 March 1928, Page 25

Is “Noo Zeland” Part of Australia?

Our ‘MissN.Z. ’SaysNot AMERICAN DISCOVERIES “Miss New Zealand” (Miss Dale Austen) finds much to interest her in the United States. This note was written prior to her arrival in Los Angeles: “We have had our first experience of sleeping in an American Pullman. The nigger porters are very obliging, and do their job well. We had great fun climbing up to a top bunk, and were quite impressed when the porter gave us hat bags for our hats, so that they would not get dusty. “Next morning, we woke to a white, glistening world, just like ah oldfashioned Christmas card. Snow was everywhere, and the fir trees had become old men in the night, with long white beards. We spent the whole day in the observation car at the back, which is open to the air. We passed through the Tillamook region, which rises to a height of over 1,800 ft., and the train winds its romantic way through virgin forests, and along picturesque mountain streams. “We passed through Oregon City and New Era. Salem, Albany and Eugene are the next big cities, famous for

their prunes, strawberries, raspberries, and almost every other kind of berry, hops and flax. Then we passed through the wild and magnificent country of the Cascade Mountains. Deer, white pelicans, and bears are seen along this route, but we were unlucky, and did not see any other bear than my Otago mascot of the Teddy variety. “Gradually we descended into the lower country, and came into the fertile valley of California. Rich agricultural country, with a peaceful prosperous look, accompanied us all the way to Sacramento, which we reached just as the sun was setting behind the purple mountains, and casting a crimson glow over the valley. “Just before we arrived at San Francisco, we had the novel experience of being ferried across the Carquinez Straits, one mile wide, from Benicia to Port Costa on the “Solano,” the largest train ferry in the world, capable of carrying 20 passenger coaches and four engines. Weather Perfect “The weather has been perfect in 'Frisco, cold, sparkling and sunny, and we haven’t experienced one of its fogs yet. The air has that bracing quality of our New Zealand variety, and the harbour, with its green hills and terraced houses, is like an enlarged Wellington. We have browsed round the old Dolores Mission, built in 1770, admired the Golden Gate Park, which was sand dunes 50 years ago, and was made into this beautiful park by being covered with straw, then rich soil, and afterwards planted with a tremendous variety of trees and plants. Parks, gardens, and charming houses made this a most desirable city. “We are very much amused at some of the quaint things they say here. For instance, in a restaurant we have seen the sign, ‘lf your wife can’t cook, keep her as a pet, and eat here,* or ’Next to home, mother would like you to eat here!’ Certainly, as far as we are concerned, we would much prefer to eat good old British dishes in New Zealand, instead of the highly flavoured, very sweet and complicated food here. Also we prefer more fresh air, and less central heating, less makeup on the girls’ and women’s faces, and can see disadvantages in making life so elaborately complicated and artificial. “All the newspapers sold on the streets have sensational headlines