A SHANNONITE’S IMPRESSIONS.

Shannon News, 13 December 1921, Page 2

A SHANNONITE’S IMPRESSIONS.

MEAT PROSPECTS IN' ENGLAND. NO PLACE LIKE HOME.” A Shannon resident who has just returned from a visit to the Homeland says that things are far from bright there l at present. The cost of living is very high. A meal that was far from 6/, and for bed and breakfast at an ordinary hotel 17/6 was charged. He was struck by the number of poorly-clad, pale-taced men who walked the streets in search of work, how to exist being a problem to hundreds. Apricots and peaches were marked in the shops at 1/ to 1/6 each. For New Zealand meat, he says, there seemed no demand, Argentine having a far better sale. On making inquiries in the markets the complaint seemed to he that bur beef y as too old and stringy, Argentine supplying only two and three-year-old bullocks, while our mutton was much too fat. The wrapping of our meat was also faulty, and large quantities arrived in a damaged condition. Thq Shannonite was glad to be hack in New Zealand, as he felt he could not settle at Home again; in fact, he would (prefer being here even if he had to live in a shed. He had received the “News” regularly during bis absence, and had greatly appreciated it, the first edition coming as a pleasant surnrise. j