GOING FOR THEIR LIVES'

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 256, 29 October 1929, Page 3

GOING FOR THEIR LIVES'

GERMANY COMING BACK. WHOLE NATION WORKINGHARD. NEW ZEALANDEE'S IMPRESSIONS. For seven months Mr. J. H. Crawford, cf Waiuku, was travelling in America, the British Isles, and the Continent of Europe. During his tour, which ended when the Ulimaroa arrived at Auckland from Sydney this morning, he spent much time in Germany. " Things are looking very well indeed ] in that country," he said, " Everybody appeared to be working hard and going for their lives. Work seemed to be thenmain object in life. Agriculturally Germany is progressing apace along prac tical lines. Every available acre is under crop, and the whole is being systematically farmed. What impressed me more than in any other country in Europe was the fact that the Germans were working long hours. In the fields more women, young boys, and children were to be seen than anywhere else, and the men appeared to be engaged in factories. Geimany is i for wholesale afforestation. They are utilising all available and suitable spaces —and doing the job well. Economically Germany appears to be sound. She L getting on her feet. It will take a good while, but she is certainly going the right way about it. In Cologne 1 certainly did see a little poverty, but nothing to what was to be seen elseliere in other countries I travelled through."