A gloomy picture of Western Australia W£js painted by Captain T. Hempstalk, master of the John son, 3 well-known Lyttelton trader, who returned recently from a three months’ trip to Australia. “Conditions in Western Australia can’t compare with those in New Zealand. We are very lucky,” he told an interviewer. He noticed a great deal of unemployment, particularly among youths, for whom little seemed to be done, and in Fremantle they were hanging round the streets all day. To make matters worse, almost every ship arriving from Europe brought aliens, Italian, Jewish, and German. In Western Australia, too, said Captain Hempstalk, people were flocking off the land into the towns. Altogether, he was far from being favourably impressed with conditions there and he for one was glad to return to New Zealand.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 August 1939, Page 5
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