MOTORS IN LONDON

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 875, 20 January 1930, Page 11

MOTORS IN LONDON

N.Z. PRODUCE NOT WELL ADVERTISED A VISITOR’S IMPRESSIONS When Mr. S. G. Rimmington, of New Plymouth, left London 35 years ago, the motor-car was an unknown means of transport. He returned recently to find so many cars in the streets that the fumes from the exhausts almost stifled him for the first few days. Mr. Rimmington arrived by the Port Denison this morning after spending a year in England and Wales and on the Continent. He considers that New Zealand goods are not properly advertised in England. He saw large premises iu Liverpool, where an attempt had evidently been made to boost Dominion produce, hut the venture •was not a success and the buildings were closed. “When I asked for New Zealand butter I could not get it,” he continued. “Personally I think half the New Zealand butter which goes to England is blended with other brands and sold by the chain stores.” He says that the High Commissioner’s office is most efficient and lays itself out to give the visitor from the Dominion every possible attention. England, fie found, was now up-to-date in every way and was recovering from her past period of depression. Unemployment, however, was very bad and he frequently saw queues lined up for the dole. In explaining the dole Mr. Rimmington said that it was paid only to ablebodied men. A certain amount was deducted each week from a man’s wages and then when he was out of work he was paid so much a week. When the money which had been deducted was finished the man in question no longer drew his dole. Everybody seemed to be satisfied with the Labour Government though people he spoke to admitted that a strong opposition was very necessary.