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Show New Zealc.nder Proud of His Native Land As soon as you arrive In Auckland. New Zealand, you feel the peculiar character of this most original of dominions: a blissful land where the 1,500,000 British settlers for the other oth-er nationalities form only small and transient groups are producing and exporting precious raw materials and engaging In sports of every conceivable conceiv-able kind, which they pursue with incredible in-credible verve and enthusiasm. They are also fully convinced of their superiority to the rest of mankind man-kind and of the unique privilege they enjoy in living In these Islands. They have their reasons down pal. We must not smile at the questionnaire question-naire to be tilled before disembarking In Npw Zvaiand. In it you mast promise before the Almighty to be good, to observe strictly the wise laws of the land, and, finally, .to remember that the experience of spending even a brief period of your existence In Ihese islands Is something to be proud of for the rest of your life. On making inquiries 1 learned that there is a liltle unemployment not. to be sure, because there is no work, but because t lie Kngiisli Inhabitants prefer to leave hard labor to people of other nationalities. The several hnn I red Italians here all find good cm ploymer.t in building railroads. Ar ualdo Cipolla In La Stampa, Turin (Living Age). |