PROSPEROUS AMERICA

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 160, 27 September 1927, Page 14

PROSPEROUS AMERICA

TRUST AND FRIENDSHIP MR. G. D. GREENWOOD’S VIEWS EVERYBODY in America is working and apparently content. “There is a feeling of trust and of friendship between the employers and the employed, who are earning good money. “Everybody is busy and everybody seems prosperous. I wish we could emulate those conditions in New Zealand.” The prevailing conditions in America made a marked impression on Mr. G. D. Greenwood, the well-known Canterbury squatter and racehorse owner, who returned by the Mataroa yesterday afternoon from a holiday trip to England, America and the Continent. Conditions in England have improved vastly since Mr. Greenwood’s last visit there five years ago, though he says that the same prosperous feeling is not as marked there as in America. In Yorkshire the worsted trade is in a very depressed state, but the artificial silk industry has come to stay. Ail the artificial silk factories are working full time, but the worsted factories are either closed or working half time “The artificial silk industry will make a big difference to the wool trade,” said Mr. Greenwood. “The silk is produced more cheaply and everybody is wearing it now.” “The war graves in Belgium are most beaiutifully kept—you have no idea how carefully they are looked after,” continued Mr, Greenwood. “I wanted to see for myself what they were like.” On the day that Mr. Greenwood arrived In London he attended a lecture Plven by the High Commissioner, Sir James Parr, on the advantages of New Zealand to the English settler. Viscount Jellicoe was in the chair. Mr. Greenwood was asked to speak and said that he did his best to advertise the Dominion.