Travellers' Tales
BOOKs about New Zealand by Englishmen are becoming rarer. There was a time when it was fashionable to tour the colonies and write up the experience for publication when safely home again. Impressions so recorded were generally superficial, but they probably had. their uses. They could at least serye as an introduction for future travellers, and they perhaps helped to undermine the popular English conception of our country as an island off
the Australian coast continually torn by earthquakes. For us New Zealanders their influence was less profound. Most of them merely tickled our vanity, confirming opinions already strongly held on such subjects as our scenery, the size of our trout, the hospitality of our people, the consumption of tea, and the genius displayed in dealing with the Maori race. They were, in
Tact, just as misleading, the majority of them, as travellers’ impressions usually are. They catalogued natural marvels and at one period, in Seddon’s time, made a point of noting our legislation which was considered, at least by the Fabians, to be showing the world a peaceful solution to its industrial problems. With scarcely an exception they gave no idea of how the ordinary New Zealander lived and worked.-(Book talk by John Harris, 4Y A, March 5).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 95, 18 April 1941, Page 5
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211Travellers' Tales New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 95, 18 April 1941, Page 5
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