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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 80a

Social Matters

Social Matters.

We have plenty of well-established towns and villages, with gas and water, good streets, public libraries, schools, universities and churches, civilisation and all the advantages that spring so naturally and beautifully out of municipal loans. Dunedin has 46,000, Invercargill, 8,000; Christchurch 48,000; Wellington, 33,000; Napier, 9,000; Auckland, 51,000 inhabitants; all of whom have that mixture of conceit, pugnacity, recklessness, general good-humour and love of order that are so endearing in the British race. With the exception of the tongue, the fist is the only offensive weapon in use amongst us. The revolver has not yet become an institution with us, and the constable's baton is all that is wanted to keep order, and not much of that.