Newest England : notes of a democratic traveller in New Zealand, with some Australian comparisons / by Henry Demarest Lloyd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lloyd, Henry Demarest, 1847-1903, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Government ownership.

New Zealand.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (387 pages)

Other Title:

Newest England

Place of Publication:

New York : Doubleday, Page & Co., 1903.

Summary:

Excerpt from Newest England: Notes of a Democratic Traveller in New Zealand, With Some Australian Comparisons. New Zealand lies about as far to the south Of the equa tor as Japan to the north. It is, like Japan and like the mother country, a group of islands, and is not unlike Japan in the lie of the land, running in a long narrow strip about fifteen hundred miles north and south, and is like Japan in a beauty of scenery which even the Oldest trav eller finds it hard not to rave about. About the Publisher.

Contents:

"The least bad"

"Our mutual friend"

The railway kings

No "public be damned"

The workmen are the contractors

Taxation to burst up monopolies

A man better than a sheep

"Landless men have the preference"

Tramps made taxpayers

A country without strikes

Quarantining the Panic of 1893

"And then we smashed the money ring"

Government and company, unlimited

Pensions for veterans of work

"A substitute for a French Revolution"

Appendix

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes index.