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pbr rant tssocunur. Sydnky, January 23. Mr B. R. Wise, on on his return fi om Now Zealand, etUI he did not sen how any visitor to Hew Zwland can but be impressed with Mi very gr at prosperity. Tbe "xtraordinary fertility of the oountry give ft enormous Advantages which certainly appeir to have been made the moat J. Wherever one goes he sees andean of the very clos* attention given by Government to the requirement* <if thfl country. In th-s respect the smalln«e> of the {elands is their advantage, tiwe every local matter e\n fo brought under the pergonal notice of the Prist MiniVer. He was favourably in*. pressed with the working tt tbe lo> dustrial Arbitration Act, and he got tbe necessary infarrattioa to draw w» regulation* for New South Wales. Be> particularly inquired into the uetfcei of d»al>ng with unemployed with speoial reference to the c-orarative) system of public works. He 4b pro* foundly impressed with the merite of thTs,ond proposed to bring it under Mr O'Sullivan's notice at an aarlj datav The system may ba a little more oostrr than the contract system, but not mot* expensive than contract or <*ey latoar sch«mi>B plus Government re'iaf. By adopting it New Zealand has bean enabled to dlap nae entirely works, while the moral efface upon tlw men of tbe two ayat-ms, tbe relief and the co-operative, cannot- be mmnuJ