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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 75, 24 April 1909, Page 3

"Hawaii was dreamland, New Zealanli « fairyland," writes Mr Franklin Matthews. nm> of the journalists who aceom-' panied ilie American licet, in an article in an American paper on the welcome! given to the licet Here during the mem*', orable week in August last, "The) Ainei icans, ' he proceeds "were astonish-j ed to lind this little land, which lias an' area i»i one-seventh less than (iroat' Hritain and Ireland together, was a' combined Norway, i Switzerland, an' Italy, a California. a Yellowstone in! see.iic beauty, and that it was an lowal and Eastern lvinsns in soil fertility, and! an Cpper Michigan and Oregon "i n its 1 grand orests and timber industries. Ys' to its Government experiments. | it would be presumption for one) v. ho was there less than a week, and! those si\ days one mad dqs]| to try jiij | catch up with rlie various plinsos uf ho*I'JtallU, to write about either In eriti* , eis;n cr commendation, to say nothing of! j endeavouring to give a mere narrative! i of what thus;* experiments have been and [ are. Perhaps tlie most significant fact' I that can be mentioned in respect to this is tint a Government has been established there win i e millionaires in Ameri- : cans know them do not exist, but. where | the wealth of the people rcachc* the U""j |in 'iidoiis t«'tal of nearlv IHOO a head,» j the highest in the world, the good o'd ! democratic doctrine of the 'greatest good for th" greatest number,' is exemplified. Presumptuous as it would lie to point (•ut where the semi-Socialistic scheme of government has snccieded or failed, this, I much may be sai<l in .•oiv,- iinin, after much crnversalion and mrefnl observa-! tion, that if healthier, happier, mora • prosperous human beings than the l esi-, dents of Xe\y Zealand exist anywhere ill the world, the writer of this does nqi know where to li.id them. ... it used to be said, 'See Paris and die !'" said .Mr Matthews in conclusion. "Paraphrasing the saving, ridiculous in these days, one may say in truth to those who seek nature's glorv in its richest beauty, 'See New Zealand and live !''' f More than fifty million square miles "of the world's surface is taken up hy I Ihe Pacific Ocean.

(ieorgv Bradshaw. the originator of ilie famous railwav guide, was born in IttiH. ami dieil in 1 Over a thmsaad Hiiiflish tradesmen nr<« entitled to use the Ivoya] Arm#; over their shop fronts. Blue, vvllow. green, and red are the colors of the new banknotes to be by the Bank rf France,