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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12642, 1 November 1905, Page 7

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hood, Mrs. 11. McGregor, and Miss Halpin, of Wellington, returned from Zion City yesterday, full of wrathful condemnation of Dowie and his methods. They report tbait the lace factory is closed, and ether factories are working with reduced hands, and will probably close down shortly. Money is scarce, and work almost impossible to get. .. The whole thing was the greatest deception of the age. Hundreds are leaving the city, but hundreds are unable to leave for want of money. Nobody prospers but Dowie and* his few paid autocrats. The town had a neglected appearance, and was not up to a good New Zealand country town-. Dowie is endeavouring to raise twelve million dollars to get Zion out of financial difficulty and start a new place in Mexico. Nobody dares aid his opinions in Zion, because of the system of espionage, even the walla appearing to have ears. The party, fortunately, had enough money left to get out and return to New Zea* land, and have done so in order to warn New Zeialanders not to give up good homes and work to go to Zion, which was all right enough morally for people with plenty of money, but hopeless for the worker dependent on his earnings. Workers were paid in paper money, allegedly cashable, but in truth only with the greatest difficulty. House property is purchasable cheap, .but rents are high.