“TOO OLD FASHIONED”

Evening Star, Issue 20053, 19 December 1928, Page 17

“TOO OLD FASHIONED”

ENGLAND’S INDUSTRIAL ECLIPSE [Special to tee 'Stab.’J

CHRISTCHURCH, December 18. “London is living on its interest,’ 5 said Mr A, 1. Rattray, secretary o£ the Metropolitan; Trotting Club, who arrived back in Christchurch after a ton months’ tour abroad. He has returned fully restored to health, but by no means pleased with the conditions ho found prevailing in the Old Country. Mr Rattray said the industrial depression was very marked. “ You will pass coal mine after coal mine that has been shut down,” he said. “ There were fifteen mines shut up in one month in Fifesiure while I was in Edinburgh. I met miners with their families tramping round the roads and trying to get shakedowns at farmhouses. It was heartrending to see the poor little kiddies.” As to the causes for this condition, Mr Rattray was unable to venture a definite opinion. He thought that it was "due in the first instance to the strikes. “ Then, again,” he said, “ the industries in England are languishing. They are not as they should bo. 1 met people in Glasgow who told me they had lost tho linen industry to Italy. I met people in Glasgow who told me they had lost tho rope industry.” “The trouble in England,” said Mr Rattray, “is that they are top oldfashioned. They are old in everything. There is too much of ‘ What was good enough for grandfather is good enough forme.’”