Dean and Mrs Fitchett return

DEAN Fitchett and Mrs Fitchett returned to Dunedin by the second express last night, after an absence of 14 months. They left New Zealand by the Argyllshire on November 19, and went home via Panama, returning, curiously enough, in the same steamer, via Cape Town and Australia. They have had the misfortune to be dogged by strikes all the way, and the resulting inconvenience and uncertainty have interfered somewhat with the pleasure of their travels. Dean

Fitchett spoke first of newspapers. “It seemed to me when I got to England,” he said, “that the New Zealand papers have a better conspectus of English and European news than you get in a London daily paper.” He considers that the New Zealand news service gives an exceedingly fair conspectus, and the suggestions sometimes made that the cablegrams are biased and onesided seems to him quite unfounded. His general impression is that one can learn more about the condition of things generally from the news to be had every day in the New Zealand papers than he could from taking up a London morning paper. On church attendance the Dean found that generally in England the average congregations were better than they are in New Zealand. He saw the church working in three counties, Herefordshire Lancashire and

Sussex.

COPIES OF PICTURE AVAILABLE FROM ODT FRONT OFFICE, LOWER STUART ST, OR WWW.OTAGOIMAGES.CO.NZ The business centre of Dunedin, as seen from an aeroplane looking south along Princes St. — Otago Witness, 1.1.1921.