IMPROVED CONDITIONS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 515, 19 November 1928, Page 1

IMPROVED CONDITIONS

I AUCKLANDER RETURNS FROM ABROAD NO SLUMS IN LONDON The improved conditions abroad made a deep impression on Mr. J. L. Webb, managing director of Chandler and Company, who returned by the Aorangi to-day after a world tour. The greatest contrast, he thought, was in England, where the general levelling of wealth must be beneficial to the mass of the people. At Home, said Mr. Webb, the people | seemed more contented in spite of the ! unemployment and what the country has gone through since the war. The slums in London, he continued, are a thing of the past. Nowadays one might see more poverty in a big city in the United States than in, London,, despite the pronounced prosperity of America. During his world tour Mr. Webb visited Germany, Austria, France, Belgium and America, as well as England. Germany is making great strides, he says, and in the larger cities it is almost impossible to detect that there has been any association with war. In Austria it is different; the effects of the war are very noticeable in Vienna. Outside England, Germany has made the greatest improvement. Everybody is working there. So many Americans are visiting France that the tourist trade is becoming a prominent industry and has been responsible for comment by United States legislators. “England is the freest country in the world,” Mr. Webb concluded.