AS OTHERS SEE US.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 205, 18 January 1913, Page 8

AS OTHERS SEE US.

A VISITOR'S VIEW. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Mr. A. Wilson, who has spent a year in Australia and New Zealand for the purpose of working up a direct trade between the colonies and the port of Hull, in the East of England, left to-day on his return home. Writing to the Press Association Mr. Wilson says, "As I am leaving New Zealand to-day, I shold like through your medium to express my gratitude for the generous hospitality which luts been extended to me on all sides. I have had a good look round the Dominion, and the evi-. dences of your progress and enterprise make me feel proud that I am a unit of the British Empire. lam going Home with a broader outlook, and "shall endeavour to help my friends to realise the conditions of life out here. In my travels through New Zealand I have seen no evidences of poverty, but every indication of genera] prosperity, and I am satisfied that you get more out of life than we do at Home. So far as the special object, of my visit is concerned I am satisfied with the assurances I have got and feel convinced that the opening up of direct trade with Hull will soon be an accomplished fact. When I have the privilege of coming out here again I hope to be able to sail direct from Hull."