LABOUR IN NEW ZEALAND.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Now that the Labour Party is much to the fore at home, the following extract from a letter from my son, a " globe-trotter " in New Zealand, is interesting. He writes from Dipton, Otago ; note the touch about the knife-and- fork part the labourer plays :—" There is no doubt about New Zealand being the working man's Paradise. Ten shillings a day is the lowest he will accept. He spends life just as you or I should; travels about and goes to the best hotels. He is, in fact, a gentleman in working get-up. All I have met are extremely nice chaps, bar one or two boosers. There are often one or two staying in this hotel, and they turn up at breakfast and dinner and eat their food quite nicely. They all seem to know a bit, too."—I am, Sir, &c., P. M. M.
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