HAPPY SIAM

Marlborough Express, Volume LX, Issue 231, 30 September 1926, Page 3

HAPPY SIAM

NO STRIKES, AERIAL ACTIVITY. A story of happy Siam, which has not had a strike for at least 27 years, was rclated by Mr N. E. Low-e, who, accompanied by his wife and two children, returned by the Comorin to Sydney, after 27 years' service under the Siamese Government (states the Sydney Sun). His one regret during the happy years in Siam, where he was a land commissioner, was that Australia, his native country. was not making the most of her trade opportunities. "Siam is flourishing.," said Mr Lowe. "Thc people love and respect their monarch, and for many years the rulers have been broadminded and geiierou.s. In religi-ous mutters, the people and the Administration coukl not be more tolerant. "Grfeat attention is paid to aerial defence. There are aerodromes in various paris of the country, and Siam has takou to tne air. Mails are carried by aeroplane to the lar interior, where there are no railroads." "I have b-een amazed at the growth of America's trade in Siam, ' said Mr Lowe. "They s-end 90 per cent. of the flour sold, and are- captming the tinned fruit and jam business. The Americans and the leading Britrlsh firrns study marketing, and appreciate the value of pushmg methods. An Australian firm will label its prodiict, say, 'Picklcd Onions.' The American, realising that the E'astern people-s do not undterstand English, will have an artistic label vividly picturing the contents.. Th-e Australian, products,

splendid as they often are remain on the shop shelves; the native buver points ro the brightly labelled goods . Australia had, however, made a liame for herself with buter antd meat : but the flour, when it- reached the consumer, rvas not of high standard." — " " '