Southern Summer.

If Christmas this year reflects to some extent the general economic cloud, this will probably be less the case in New Zealand than anywhere. When depression is world-wide, the Northern Hemisphere faces Christmas and the New Year in the season of cold and scarcity. Here “the festive season” falls at least in the season of warmth and plenty. If one had to choose between living in a land which has to sell food oversea, and living in a land which has to buy food oversea, the choice should be soon made. A country that cannot feed itself, lives, in grim truth, on trade. A country that feeds others may be poor in money but in the final analysis is rich. Let New Zealanders rejoice in their sun and soil. There are no better.