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part of the world. There are ferries which run to Christchurch, 
Nelson, and several other ports, and these boats seemed to be filled 
with passengers. Indeed, the water-front gives the impression of 
greater activity than that of Auckland and the business blocks 
and public buildings are quite up-to-date and impressive. 
Victoria College, one of the four which make up the University, 
is built of brick, with stone trimmings and is four stories in 
height. It would be called a good college building anywhere. The 
biological laboratories are well equipped and seem to be well 
manned. The educational system of New Zealand is built on the 
model of that of the mother country in general, but seems to be 
modified so as to give good educational facilities to all classes of 
people and to have more of a leaning toward a practical or voca- 
tional preparation for life, with less emphasis on purely academic 
courses. Education is free for the most part, and those who have 
to work during the day are provided for by night courses in the 
University Colleges. The more capable students secure scholar- 
ships which yield free tuition. Education, moreover, is very gen- 
erally compulsory. The four University Colleges are located at 
Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. 
New Zealand has its fair share of eminent scientific men and a 
number of them have been and are research men of the highest 
grade. The best zodlogical textbook I know is Parker & Haswell’s 
Zodlogy. The senior author is a New Zealand man. 
There are several first class newspapers, but we were usually too 
busy to read them. They followed the English fashion of printing 
the advertisements on the first pages and the news items after- 
wards. I have before me a copy of the Auckland Weekly News, 
printed on September 21, 1922, and it would be a credit to enter- 
prising journalism anywhere in the world. There are 84 pages, 
1814 by 12 inches in size. The first ten pages are occupied by 
advertising matter. The first page of news is filled by an account 
of ‘‘Prohibition in America,’’ written by a clergyman who is a 
violent anti-prohibitionist and holds forth on the ‘‘dire con- 
sequences’’ of the prohibition law in the United States. It is full 
of vitriolic propaganda which would characterize the ravings of 
the ‘‘Bootleggers’ Federation’’ in America. Being placed on one 
of the advertising pages it may have been published at advertis- 
ing rates. The excitement about prohibition at that time was 
largely due to the impending visit of ‘‘Pussy-foot Johnson’’ to 
New Zealand which certainly aroused a wild rage among those 
