HUSTLE IN AMERICA

Taihape Daily Times, 18 February 1919, Page 5

HUSTLE IN AMERICA

Mr Marehbanks, engineer of the Welington Harbour Board, has just returned from a tour abroad. Of Am j erica he says: One of the most amff?ring features of the war hustle was the shipping fever. In enarly every important city visited by Mr Marchbanks shipbuilding was proceeding with remarkable rapidity, and the number of vessels turned out was astonishing. 1$ one shipbuilding yard there were no few T er than 50 vessels on the stocks at the same time. Owing principally to the extremely high cost of living, wages were extraordinarily high. He heard of highly skilled 1 mechanics in munition factories earning as much as £2O to £3O a week. One very noticeable thing was the great loyalty of the people to the Government. Right or wrong, the vernment’s decrees were final, and murmurs of discontent were seldom heard.