| Show I A GOOD PEOPLE I An admirer 01 of New Newland Ve Zea Zealand 1 land writing wilting for tor the JJ New w Y oric rit World elaine claims that no poverty and DO no criminal clues eluM exist in that thaI county TIle The people l le we e i are arc IC are Millen Millennial nial al Q lions uon to o 0 sums ome extent ex t al 81 although although though that th t happy of ot society Is Li atUl still far Ir from Crom an actual tact fact in Sit other parts ru of 01 the th gloM According to the Ibe writer referred to when the she I visited New Zealand a n man we under und tried trial for having killed h is Chinaman n lie It hi had done the Ibe deed dt Cl In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Insane belief that It was tas his hl mU int lion to hep h p extermInating the lb yellow 1110 race raCil This ease case of ot homIcide It U li Ii I said celd was Ial something so sa ae at to horrify the entire population Tho Thu aar of thIeves thieve Ibl I Is II another f The writer quoted lays ay k h spent U w weeks eks In r II ahouse house huso In city of o ill 0 in inhabitants habitants net more l rEt than ten minutes walk from the center of oC the town lown And nd during that time mit a latchkey was al aI always aIwa 1 ways wa night and end day iJa In the outside keyhole of the front dour door The lady of ot the Ih bouas explained that ah lb she kept It there Ihen M so that no one might accident accidentally ally all get locked out Gul of or the people In the 1411 merely dropped r a aerate their bedroom floors at ot night and loft left the teo doors wide open for tor a circulation of ot air We presume ume New ew Zealand Las lias Its moral morel drawbacks us 1111 well ell as the ro rent t of Ut the th world but tho the conditions that obtain there ther are or well w ll worth studying The criminality of ot the older countries la Ss due it to numerous causes cause Drunken nesa U III i one of or them IMm Disregard for tor Wo life and nd property may mar b be traced to 10 the ta Ia influence of wore and feuds And n acts ts ot of personal revenge The spirit of or In engendered by b such puch means Is I nourished and ond fostered by b a pi pies ess with no ito 10 other oilier than to 10 make money for tor Its lis I owners rs regardless of ot by b what means Jn an anew New ew cW Zealand has been almost free tree from rota such ouch Influences and this Is visible risible In Inthe Inthe Inthe the public and private life lite of ot the citi citizen zen Eons A notable Instance balance Is 18 thus re fl ported by b the time writer In the World WorldOn WorldOn orld On lection night In Wellington the capital of or the tho colony the streets were thronged with crowds of or men inca women anti and youths who ho In III front of or the newspaper where there returns were l pasted t d hurried from toni one office to an nit other o roamed roam about In search sf of ot amusement I walked about with the tho crowds fully hiatt the population ot of Wellington must have been b en on the tha Ih and stood In their jams for or hour hourI and I did not see Fe a single ln le In Manco stanco nf or disorderly behavior of ot any sort n papers papera Po r the next day report oil 1 three capes cas of misconduct In all of ot which the offenders had been Immediately arrested I was wai U so K Amazed by this th l absence of or and of JI to expect In cities vitlo and large IRr e towns town that to 10 assure myself I math made a study of o the police poll e reports In the dally dIU Criminal casts of or the sort port that meant means crime and a II criminal class els elsewhere rarely come orne up In the magistrates court Wa e hope th the people of or New w Zealand will bo ho able aNe to keep their ther reputation for Cor or purity of ot o morals morel honesty and order ly J 1 conduct The TIt danger of ot degl lion tion through contact with the It k r Nr mry ry greet grant Jr |
