The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-09
.LECKENBY'S
OBSERVATIONS
What He Thinks OF The New
Zealand Form of
Progress.
Auckland. \. e., Oct. 16. 1905.

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Editor Advertiser: One week here
has enabled me to discover a manifest
spirit of progress. With a firm tread
they are making haste slowly but sure
~ to life better worth iving-not
only tolerable, but enjoyable The
rather stern but intelligent faces you
meet on the streets have challenge
theworld expression; they look the
great questions of life in the face,
lodging nothing, baking at no diff
culties.
Some things we may learn from
them with profit. They seem TO have
twisted the sacred right to the earth
into a new and better form, and are
thing 1t looks as if they were going
to vote no-leense tomorrow
The question of equal suffrage they
have solved in way that should bring
the blush of shame to many of our
old fogies. Women vote and take a
real, live, wise and active part in
elections.
The people love their New Zealand,
and are making homes for themselves
that seem fit breeding places for n
great people They are building the
solid foundation for future greatness
bv making it good for the man that
tolls; all paths are smoothed for the
feet of those who produce good things,
and rewards hang low for all who are
willing to work UNLIMITED poverty is
oil aC
of old fogies in the background who
reverence and want to retain the out
worn ideas of government by and for
the few, but Democracy has been born
again and includes the industries.
1t would do you good to see how
sanguine all are that it is good eoun-
try and getting better. They talk not
of what is, but Of bright visions of the
near futures when this place whore
i, thew live viii be thriving town, with
good roads, a postofiee, electric lights,
| etc. and they set about to make their
dreams come true. / visited the gov
eminent grading and freezing estab.
Iishment. where they receive farm prod
nee, grade, pack and sell such things
as butter, cheese. meat. poultry, eggs,
etc. A farmer viii bring in eggs. They
good eggs are stamped with date, etc,
bad or poor ones are destroyed, cracked
ones are utilized, a statement is made
in triplicate. One is mailed to grower,
one goes to market with the eggs and
one is fled in the office. A charge of
two cents per dozen is made that covers
all expense of grading, packing. trans
portation and selling. The grower gets
hn urn
cents per dozen. The same plar is
pursued with live chickens. They are
killed. dressed. frozen and marketed by
the government, and the best possible
price realized, because the government
makes a study and has the means OF
knowing when they are needed. If you
could do the same with pines and ba-
nanas ii would be a boon TO the grow
ers, a blessing to the consumers and
mighty good for all except the com
mission man. who could himself be a
producer. They have solved the great
problem Of owning the government and
making it benefit the many without
doing any real injustice 10 the few,
who. with us. get bloated and sacrifice
their digestion, or build libraries with
their name on, or go to Europe, or get
biIes. The people are well-nourished,
well dressed and wellLbehaved. The
vonng man are. many Of them. sporty,
bet and drink a good deal. but You
do not see much drunkenness They
are going to retire the barmaids.
The children look like healthy bloom
/ ing roses-open eyed and unafraid
Agricultural problems are in good
Ia ha
have MANY problems inseparable from
new country. they have also many
| good things and are eagerly reaching
out TO a better tomorrow. I was told
TODAY that a shipment had been receiv-
"a Of $4,000 boxes of Washington APP
| pies and a plate Of them on the table
| makes me proud of what intelligent
fort has done on the farm in that
distant land.
think there is a good market here
| for canned pines, as what they get are
little nubhins from FIJI that are poorly
grown and poorly packed.
It IS spring time here now, straw
! berries are Just coming in and the old
| familiar and some new ones with their
memory provoking fragrance are in
/ their glory.
Tender plants like heIiotr0pe, gera-
| uiums etc. tell of the mildness Of their
/ winter. for you see houses covered with
blooms that stand no freezing.
You see fields and homes divided
with pretty hedge fences-mostly haw-
I thorn now covered with white fragrant
blossoms.
/ Much as 7 love the Hawaiian Islands
/ and the charming people. may not be
able 10 write until I recover from an
| obstinate fit of what they caH writer $
/ cramp.
Remember to get bats and swallows
| and insect eating birds.
/ Sincerely.
/ A. 3. LFCKENBY.