This Green and Pleasant Land
TRAVELLED 18,000 miles by air to reach New Zealand, and this is the twenty-ninth country I have visited or crossed over to get here. It is undoubtedly the richest looking, most prosperous looking and most smiling of all the countries I have crossed. A South African farmer would grow green with envy if he were to travel, as I have done, down the West Coast of the North Island, through your amazingly rich agricultural, sheep and dairy country. My only doubt as I came along was whether you realised that it might be difficult in the future to keep so rich a prize as New Zealand unless you can find the population to hold it.("South Africa Speaks to New Zealand," Leslie Blackwell, K.C., M.C., M.P., Official envoy from South Africa to the Government of New Zealand, 2YA, December 7.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 131, 26 December 1941, Page 5
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144This Green and Pleasant Land New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 131, 26 December 1941, Page 5
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