AN INTERESTING TOUR.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3044, 14 November 1908, Page 3

AN INTERESTING TOUR.

- MR A. McLEOD AT HOME,

An interesting letter was received in Masterton the other day from Mr A. McLeod, of Miki Miki, who is at present on a tour of America and England, being now in the latter country. Mr McLeod stated that he has visited many places of interest in England, including the sights of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Burns' monument he considered a particularly attractive part of his itinerary, and many of the beauty spots which the great Scottish poet sang ot in his poems, were seen and admired by Mr McLeod. His native place, about ten miles from Glasgow, brought back to the traveller pleasant reminiscences, although many alterations were, of course, noticeable after Mr McLeod's long absence, coal mining development being the chief. The Motherwell steel and ironworks was an impressive place, and over this great depot Mr McLeod was shown. The visitor found it rather difficult to gain such a concession, as In some of the great ironworks at Home the proprietors are afraid socalled visitors are persons who are sent from other works to copy new ideas. Mr McLeod gave a graphic description of the appearance of the country in the vicinity of the great ironworks. The smoke from the chimneys causes, he states, a condition of the atmosphere equal to a big bush fire in our back country, and the chimneys look like blackened tree trunks. Bad weather had caused many square miles of crop in stook to become spoilt in various parts of England. Mr McLeod stated that gramaphones are dearer in America by far than in England, and can be bought as cheaply in New Zealand as in the States. Mr McLeod will be back in Sydney by about the 17th of December on his return home.