BACK FROM AMERICA.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 269, 10 November 1923, Page 11

BACK FROM AMERICA.

■MUWMMMMU XX THE STATBS. WAGES HIGH, LIVING DEAR. Oolon-1 W. D. Holgate arrived this nw_rn_Bg by tbe express freen Wellington, having returned from San Francisco by the Maunganui. In conversation with a representative of the "Auckland S_sr" Colonel Holgmte said he had been away from Auckland for five months, and during that period bad travelled 11,500 miles by train is the States. "I went," said Colonel Holgate, "on behalf of the Tenpiri Coal Company to study hydraulic mine tilling, which system is extensively used in the anthracite fields in America. It has been adopted generally to allow the pillars of coal to be" removed. Hydraulic mine filling was used over 25 years ago. firs* to restrain and arrest mins eq_ee.es, also to uphold surfaces of mines run under large towns. For the last 16 years the system has been also used to enable the pillars of coal to he removed, which effects a great saving to the companies.

"Business is good right through the United States. Everybody seems prosperous. Wages STe high, and the cost of living is, I should say, fnllv three times more than it is in New Zealand. For instance, the dinner that the Government provides at Marton railway station for 2/« easts 8/6 in America. One thing that impressed mc about the Americans is their love of country and of their own particular State. There is no place in the world equal to it with them, and that helps to boom the United States. They have full faith in the future of their country, and their ideas of Sininess can only be described as colossal."