BUYING EXPERIENCE

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1591, 1 November 1905, Page 2

BUYING EXPERIENCE

DELUDED ZIONI^ES. '(Eer Press 'Aeiocaatiioa.) Auckland, last night. ’ Mr and Mrs Thomas Hood, Mrs H. McGregor, and Miss Haplin, Wellington immigrants, returned from Zion City today, full of wrathful condemnation of • Dowie and his methods. They report that 1 the laoe faotory has closed, and other 1 factories are working with reduoed hands, and will probably close down shortly. Money is scarce, and work almost imposs sible to get. The whole thing was the greatest deception of the age. Hundreds were leaving the oity, and hundreds were unable to leave for want of money. Nobody had prospered but Dowie and his few paid autoorats. Tbo town had a.negleoted appearanoe, and was not up to a good New Zealand country town. Dowie was endeavoring to raise 12 million dollars to get Zion out of financial difficulties and start a new plaoe in Mexioo. Nobody darod air their opinions in Zion, because of the system of espionage, even walls appearing to liave ears. The party fortunately had enough money left to get out a return passage to New Zealand, and they have done so, after warning New Zealanders not to give up good homes and work to go to Zion, wbioh was all right 1 enough morally for people with plenty of ' moDey, but hopeless for workers dependent * on their earnings. Workers were paid in \ paper money allegedly cashable, but in 5 truth only with the greatest difficulty, , House property was purchasable oheap,' , but rents were high. 1