AUSTRALIANS TOLD N.Z. NOT SOCIAL PARADISE
Member For New Plymouth Speaks At Queensiand BRISBANE, Feb. 10. Visiting relatives and inspecting Queensiand primary industries, the former Queenslander, Mr. E. R. Aderman, the New Zealand M.P. . for New Plymouth, said New Zealand was not the social paradise Australians had been led to believe. Grocery prices were 33 per cent higher than in Australia. Electricity vas rationed to two-thirds of the nopulation. Go-slow methods were :,"ing adopted in industry, Communism was inereasing and there existcd coal, cement, clothing, galvanised lon and iiousing shortages. The Australian kousing shortage vas not nearlv as bad as New Zea'cnd.'s, but New Zealand had less inlustrial trouble. Air. Aderman said trade shoulcl j xist between Queensiand and New •'ealand, with Queensiand supplying Topical fruits and molasses.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5325, 11 February 1947, Page 5
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128AUSTRALIANS TOLD N.Z. NOT SOCIAL PARADISE Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5325, 11 February 1947, Page 5
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