BRIGHTER TIMES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 326, 11 April 1928, Page 8

BRIGHTER TIMES

Glowing Reports of England's Prosperity EVERYONE OPTIMISTIC Glowing report* of brighter times and prosperity m En 01... were brought by passenger* wharrived by the lonic th.s mori ing. QNE man said that he saw no Slgas of poverty, and he predicts th*t in two or three years England win be more prosperous than she was. I "as very much surprised to how optimistic everyone was in Pr. e land.’’ said Mr. It. Wilson, a retired farmer, who returned from his fir,, trip Home for 25 years. “Everything is booming.'" he co« tinued. "The farmers seem to be the only people who are not etiovin, good times. Many of them have gon, bankrupt, but legislation is to bs passed this session to improve thing*." Mr. Wilson previously owned * farm in the Waikato district, and later took up another farm at Tanranga. He made an extensive toer through the whole of England, and even in the Midlands and the North he saw no signs of distress. Indus, tries were working to capacity and a great increase in trade was promised. “England's roads are wonderfal,* said Mr. Wilson. "They are all a> smooth as a deck —even the small highways.” "I did not have any inquiries trot* people wishing to come out and settle in New Zealand.” he went on. “There is not the same desire to emigrate, and some of the immigrants have sent Home bad reports of condition here.”