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LAND & WATER 
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that the railways, where necessary, take the children to 
school free of charge, and springcarts are also hired for 
that purpose. The teacher's pay is liberal. He is 
recognised as a national asset. Our system of education 
is secular, although from time to time colonists have 
desired to introduce religious instruction, and the Roman 
Catholics especially have pointed out the hardships under 
which they labour in requiring to provide their own 
schools. The system was brought to us largely by our 
Scottish colonists. Otago, the pro\ance to which my 
father went, was settled by the Free Church of Scotland, 
and Canterbury by the Church of England. Large grants 
of land were set aside in both . these pro\'inccs for 
religious purposes, and churches still receive considerable 
support from these sources. Other provinces were settled 
by people from different counties in England. New 
Plymouth, for instance, was settled by Devonshire people. 
"A youth of ordinary ability will receive a grant in aid 
during the later stages of his schooltime of £io a year ; 
if of extraordinary ability, a grant of ^^40 over and above 
his free education." ft sounded like the Millennium to me 
and made me wonder whether the hard days that are 
probably coming for the professional classes in the matter 
of education mightn't drive some of us to apply for ad- 
mission into this admirably alert young State. 
I suppose I began apologising for something else, for 
Sir Thomas got up and let me have it straight from the 
shoulder. It wasn't a piece thrown off for publication, 
as I saw, if I may tell it without indiscretion, tears in 
his eyes. 
" Don't go on apologising," he said. " Let me tell 
you from watching you pretty closely during the war, 
you're— you're a— a grand people/ Still as sound as 
ever. It is a privilege to be here. Our fellows love your 
men when they come across them ; their cheeriness, 
their grit, their very way of pretending there is nothing in 
it. Your hospitality to us has been astonishing. It has 
only got to be known that we need anything and the thing's 
done 
" You know all this means a great deal to me. I 
suppose the old country is less " home " to me than it 
was to my faiher ; and to my children it is just a little bit 
farther away still. Old bonds were naturally weakening 
a little. That couldn't be helped ; it is just the passing of 
time. But all this coming together in the war is just the 
big thing that was wanted to pull us all together again, and 
for all the dreadfulness of it, absolutely nothing could be 
better for the future we all look forward to ... . 
Oh, yes, of course there are things we don't like and per- 
haps we shall have things to say in due time. But don't 
you go a\\-ay with any impression that the young people 
have any contempt for the old. England, or rather 
Britain, will always be " home " in the old sense for 
me and for my children and for theirs, if it keeps as 
sound as it is to-day." 
This was good hearing indeed. And I ventured, 
catching at a hint, to touch on the vexed question of 
Land Settlement." 
The conditions of settlement which prevail in New 
Zealand are very generous, and enormous assistance is 
given by our progressive Government in encouraging 
the workman to become his own landlord and to give 
him a vested interest in the Dominion. However, 
we want to win this war, and after that is done I 
think there will be a wide field for the enterprising 
spirits of the Old Country." 
" Oh, of course we have got room for the right 
men. And women ? Oh j^es. But they ought to be 
real home makers, really trained. It does seem to 
me that here as with us there is an astonishing neglect 
of the science, or the art rather isn't it, of domestic 
economy. Another of my hobbies, which I musn't ride 
" By the way, this might interest you, though it is 
nothing to do with the matter in hand. A Turkish 
officer forwarded to this office a pound note which had 
been found by one of his men on the dead body of one of 
ours, together with a memorandum by the poor fellow 
asking that the pound should be sent to his mother if 
he was killed. As you know our fellows came back with 
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