ENGLAND GETTING NORMAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 95, 23 April 1926, Page 8

ENGLAND GETTING NORMAL.

LONDON'S TRAFFIC PROBLEM. Speaking of conditions in England Mr. Nathan, who has just returned to Auckland, said as far as.he could find out, things were getting more normal every day, and people were settling down after the strenuous and disturbing war period. The shipping strike had done a tremendous lot of harm to business, some people even going the lengbif of saying that it hit the country harder than the war. However, the outlook was now much more reassuring, and the country seemed to be getting back to normal. • One tiling that, struck Mr. Nathan most forcibly was the tremendous problem London has to solve in its traffic, which has grown to such proportions that something radical will have to be done. London's facility in handling traffic was well known, but in recent years even London was staggered. There was talk of regulating the number of "pirate" motor- buses, but there still remained the herculean problem of the 'heavy' traffic.. More subways for "the pedestrians to cross the streets, and more underground lines were talked of, but there were already so many, lines underground that the relief in. that direction was limited. Although Mr. Nathan was not there in the busiest season, he was astonished at the way ths traffic had grown in • the interval since he was there six years ago, and he was not. surprised that the authorities admitted they did not know what to d 0...

Wonderful how .these "scientific gentlemen think of things, isn't it? "Sleep," so a lecturer on "Fatigue and Sleep" hag just assured a London audience, "is the state of maximum rest of the human being." Dear, dear, we. do live: and learn! , And many a plain man has hitherto gone to bed under the impression that it was the. next best thing jin the way of exercise to a five-mile [run across country.