"NATION OF BEGGARS."

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18897, 12 January 1927, Page 8

"NATION OF BEGGARS."

STATE OP ENGLAND. AUCKLAND MAN'S IMPRESSIONS. [THE PBESS Special Service.'! AUCKLAND, January 11. After a ten months' tour abroad, Mr 11. R. Jenkins, of Auckland, has returned home. "In England," he said, "outside the factories there are everywhere three people doing the work of one. This applies'not only to the men, but to the women in the houses. I saw on a golf links two men pushing a lawnmower while another man pulled it. "I also did not like to see men caddying on the links in place of boys. These caddies will not go after a ball for you. They will only carry your sticks, and afterwards tbey will go and look for lost balls and sell them. Many of them are on tho dole as well as caddying. "The country is in danger of Incoming a nation of beggars. You will find men begging, using some musical instrument they cannot play, trying' to sell useless articles,- or with no excuse at all. in almost; every street and suburb of London."

Surprise was expressed by Mr Jenkins, who is a keen advocate of the Diirchase of British goods, to sen English manufacturers _ using foreign motor-cars, while asking 'the world to buv British foods "I reckon that Britain has the poorest, workmen in Europe," he added. "Thev apparently work without any heart."