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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 August 1939, Page 5

"There is. I think, more common ground between Americans and New Zealanders—or shall I say Australasians? —than there is between Australasians and Britishers.” said Sil’ Hubert Ostler when addressing a gathering at Auckland in honour of Dr. Roscoe Pound, of the Harvard School of Law. "Wo both cannot fail to notice," continued Sir Hubert, 'when we visit our common country of origin—the country which we New Zealanders still refer to affectionately as Home —that it has not yet succeeded in completely clearing away the debris of the feudal system, that it is still somewhat insular in its outlook, and that its conception of freedom in some respects, but only by very little, may halt behind ours. But we Now Zealanders, nevertheless, have a passionate love for our homeland and a firm faith in the British Commonwealth of free Nations to which we are proud to belong. We have never had the slightest idea of cutting the painter."