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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 4, Issue 9 (January 1, 1930)

The Tail's Influence on the Dog

The Tail's Influence on the Dog.

In conformity with the scale of relative quantities, New Zealand must necessarily take her cue, to a great extent, from the economic experience of more populous and older countries. Generally she must look to their lead in most branches of the application of science to industry, and in the supply of technical equipment. Also, she must, as mentioned lower down, take such motion pictures as they choose to send her. Yet it is also true that many men who are leaders oversea are New Zealand born. This Dominion breeds and trains clever men, who go oversea to find their scope, and the retiring Governor-General, Sir Charles Fergusson, offers the opinion that New Zealand should be as proud of these New Zealanders who do the work of the Empire elsewhere as of those who do it at home. Of such is Mr. Norman D. Nairn (a wanderer momentarily returned), and his brother Gerald. After war service in Palestine, Mr. N. D. Nairn stopped in Syria and took a big hand in re-opening the world's oldest transport route, by putting on motors between Beirut and Bagdad. From four-wheeled to six-wheeled vehicles the service has ascended, and the modern Alexander now plans to conquer the air with Damascus-Bagdad twelve-passenger aeroplanes. New Zealand's oversea legion is too numerous to particularise, but among those links-with-the-outside-world are “the New Zealanders in the Royal Air Force, numbering ninety,” who dined in London on 1st December with Major Wilkes and Captain Findlay. At the same time twenty Wellington College Old Boys met in the metropolis at a reunion dinner. The world is both very large and very small. Another New Zealander, the radio airman McWilliams, of trans-Tasman and round-the-world Southern Cross fame, looked in during December at the land of his birth.

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