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Taranaki Daily News, 10 January 1921, Page 4

The Rev. C. F. Askew, of St! Mark’s Church, Wellington, recently back from England, says that living conditions there are very unsatisfactory. The industrial world was in a continual * tur* moil, and one had to be careful in making arrangements to travel to prevent being held up by strikes of one kind or another. Owing to the high prices of everything people were withholding from buying anything, save bare essentials, with the result that the , warehouses were packed with goods and the mills were closing down. There was a good deal of unemployment, and exservice men were finding it difficult to obtain work, yet Remands for still higher wages were being made. He supposed the upheaval was due to war conditions, when every worker was able to make big wages, but the altered conditions had to be faced, and to some extent that meant the resumption of normal working conditions. While travelling from Cheltenham to Gloucester he happened to overhear a conversation • between two men, one of whom was evidently the proprietor of a hotel. The latter was relating how three miners had dined his place. They had champagne before dinner, during dinner, and after dinner, and the “blow out” had cost them twelve truineas.