Prefer New Zealand to Australia
Received Friday, 8.50 p.m. LONDOX, September 9. Two former British Army officers, Captain Peter Watkins and Captain Kenneth Walker, both of whom served during the war with the Indian Army, have returned to their homes in Cornwall after hitch-hiking their way through Australia and Now Zealand. They undertook sucli diverse jobs as farm work, driving timbcr trucks, sorting sheeps' livers, spraying orchards, picking fruit and acting as alpine guides, and finally returned to Britain working their passages as galley boys on a British tanker. "We found the New Zealand farmers, who are known as 'cockies, ' incredibly kind and generoiis, " said Captain Watkins. "Our most lasting impression is of the friendliness and loyalty of the people to Britain." Captain Watkins said that if he was a prospective migrant he would seleet Xew Zealand in preference to Australia, though the accommodation problem tliere was just as diffieult as in Britain.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 September 1949, Page 5
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153Prefer New Zealand to Australia Chronicle (Levin), 10 September 1949, Page 5
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