MR KEIR HARDIE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9082, 6 May 1908, Page 5

MR KEIR HARDIE.

1 EULOGY OF NEW ZEAL/.ND. "My advice to an Englishman who wanted to emigrate to a British colony would be to go to New Zealand. The general standard of comfort is perhaps higher there than anywhere else." Thus spoke Mr Keir Hardie, M.P., who was interviewed at Plymouth on March 24th, immediately on arrival of the Aberdeen liner Moravian. He said he had been restored in health as the result of his travels, but that he still felt some of the effects of the motorcar accident, which happened to him near Wellington. Mr Keir HarJie sail that New Zealand was the nearest approach to the ideal State that he had seen during his wanderings. Everywhere in. the dominion thsre was an air of prosperity, largely due to the Socialistic legislation of the New Zealand Government. "I found every encouragement for the future of Socialism in most of the colonies." he said. "In Australia and New Zealand its doctrines have ceased to be the bogey which they once were. In fact, the Libour party is Socialistic, and much of the legislation has been carried out on those lines." South Australia, as well as NewZealand, seems to Mr Keir Hardie a vety excellent field for the emigrant —largely due to the labour laws, and he mentioned as significant the fact that the manufacturers who cried out S3 loudly against them when they were'proposed were now among their strongest supporters.