MR McGOWEN ON GERMANY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1028, 10 August 1911, Page 4

MR McGOWEN ON GERMANY.

“Except perhaps as regards advanced methods o£ education, from no other point of view do I consider that Germany can outstrip Great Britain. In these words Mr McGowen, Premier of New South Wales, as reported in the London Evening Standard, summed up his impressions of his recent visit to the Fatherland. “My trip to Germany,’’he said “ was interesting and instructive to a degree. I took a keen interest in what I saw at Krupp’s famous works, which do a large amount of manufacturing for my Government, and also at Siemens’s where I viewed some of the most up-to-date machinery in the world. My experiences there were, indeed, of an eye opening description. Krupp’s is a wonderful place, while the conditions of sanitation, light, and general cleanliness at Siemens’ struck me as being perfection. I was impressed by the fact that at Krupp’s I was shown, without the slightest hesitation, the processes of making the larger guns for the new German Dreadnought class of battleships.” Of the trim appearance of the German towns he passed through, Mr McGowen had something to say. Touching on the industrial progress of the Kaiser's kingdom, he remarked that evidences were given him that this art of commercial “go-aheadness” on the part of the Germans was largely traceable to an educational source. “ In no other respect,” Mr McGowen added, “do I think our German friends can show us points. Following along similar lines as regards education as Germany, Britain need have no fear of that or any other nation. I should say that the rivalry between Great Britain and Germany is nothing but a friendly industrial one. Germany is an industrial beehive, and the Germans are very busy bees. They realise that they must 1 hustle’ if they are to get the belter of the industrial deal. Yes, they know there is another big hive across the English Channel—that’s what makes ’em hustle.”