BRITAIN RECOVERING

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 967, 9 May 1930, Page 11

BRITAIN RECOVERING

INDUSTRY PROSPEROUS HIGH OPINION OF N.Z. Press Association WELLINGTON, Today. The assistant general manager o. the Union Steam Ship Company, MA. W. Wheeler, returned bj th» Marama yesterday after a business trip to England lasting for more than tw years. Ho regards the conditions in Britain optimistically, and says tlia. they are improving rapidly. * Th»country seems to be recovering ver\ quickly.” he said, “and some of th« industries are very prosperous. Ti.» : is still unemployment, but it is being dealt with, and things are going on well.” Mr. Wheeler had nothing to repor: regarding the plans of the Union Com panv. The ship-building industry, he said, was fairly active, and the ques tion of design was of great interest n the moment MEMORIAL CARILLON Regarding tlio Wellington war mem orial carillon, Mr. Wheeler was mos enthusiastic. “It is one of the be.advertisements New Zealand has ov*. had in the Old Country.” he said. "Everyone in London is talking of j: . 1 have been in Hyde Bark in the even - ings when there have been about 20.000 or 30,000 people listening to thbells. Everyone who has heard them lias been very much impressed with the tone, and the bells could have nbetter testimonial than that they hav. made the people of London wish for a set of their own. “It Is wonderful what a name New Zealand has at Home. To be a Xe>\ Zealander is to possess a passport tanywhere. It is difficult to say on actly to what we owe such a reputation. as they seem to think that every thing—even apart from our footballers —is good, whether it is meat, butu honey or apples. Whatever it is. they seem to think at Home that becau? it is New Zealand grown it is good. Lord Birkenhead, speaking ;it a function, referred to New Zealand as 'tindarling of the Empire.’ They seem to be as proud of us as if they were parents with a very tine child.