DOMINIONS COMPARED.

Shannon News, 28 October 1921, Page 1

DOMINIONS COMPARED.

NO VISIBLE SLUMP LY NEW ZEALAND. SAYS CANADIAN V ISITOR. A visitor to Le\ - m just now is Mi’ H. Samuels, of Vancouver, 8.C., \\TlO is on a iieaitn tup, and at present a guest of Mr and Mrs W. Poole, of Oxford Street. Mr Samuels says he is greatly impressed with what he has seen of New Zealand, the Levin district being one of the finest dairying centres he has seen anywhere. When told that we were in tliejnidst of a slump, the Canadian said if the present conditions were regarded as bad, then Flew Zealand did not have much to growl about. When he left Vancouver a few weeks ago there were between 50,000 and 60,000 men out of work in that city alone. Trade depression was very bad in Canada, the lumber, mining, fish preserving and farming industries all being affected, and men had been discharged wholesale. Then they had the returned soldier problems as we‘ had here, and men had to be provided for and found positions. Unfortunately numbers of soldiers were among the out-of-works. However, every Canadian believed in the future of his country, which was one of wonderful resources and would come into her own in due course. Mr Samuels spent a week or two at Rotorua and Auckland, and after coming down the slain Trunk was struck with the signs of prosperity about. He returns shortly to Vancouver with a much enhanced opinion of our Dominion.