Excerpt from Democracy in New Zealand IT is curious that, while the people of New Zealand are anxious to win the good opinion of the world and are sensitive to criticism, yet the demand by them for books embodying the detailed results of enquiry into their affairs is so restricted as to be almost non-existent. Writers on Australasian life and politics all testify that the chief demand for their works comes, not from Australia and New Zealand, but from Europe and America. An illustration of this is Shown in the fact that the call for a translation of this book comes, not from New Zealand, where its merits must be known, at least to some students and parliamentarians, but from England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.