PROGRESSIVE DUTCH.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 34, 10 February 1930, Page 8

PROGRESSIVE DUTCH.

NEW SHIP SERVICES. 1 NINE DAYS OFF SUEZ TRIP. MAY EXTEND TO NEW ZEALAND. Steamship services between Australia and England, which are planned to cut seven or nine clays off the present trip, l are being organised by Dutch com--5 panics, according to Colonel N. P. 1 Adams, of Wharekawa, who returned by the Niagara this morning after a twelve : months' tour of the world. "These ' companies are going to put 17 and 18knot steamers on the Suez route," said I Colonel Adams. "They intend to cut ( four or live days off the trip between Batavia and Genoa. This latter port . will be one of their terminals, and passengers will be able to leave the steamers there and cross Europe by trains. "And," he added, "there is some talk of the service being extended direct to ' New Zealand. Such a service would enable travellers to reach London from this country in four weeks." The opinion that the Dutch are pro--1 gressing in all parts of the world has -been formed by Colonel Adams during his tour. In Java, he says, 'they' are making wonderful development. Already they have launched an air service, with 'planes leaving every three weeks, between Batavia and Amsterdam. Some trouble has been encountered with the landing grounds, but that is quickly ' being overcome. "One firm alone/' he ( declared, "has twenty tea plantations, and also produces coffee, quinine and kapok, which grows in a pod, much like ■cotton. They also grow rubber and 1 sisal", a fibre much like flax. L "The measure taken to prevent the i exportation of sheep from Australia to ! South Africa is quite useless," said - Colonel Adams. "The young Dutchmen r who have been transporting Merinos from the Commonwealth are not at all i concerned by it. It is too late, they [ say. They already have enough sheep i for breeding. These voung Dutchmen . are a go-ahead race, far different from the Boers." Several countries in Central Europe ' were visited by Colonel and Mrs. Adams , during their tour. Austria and Hungary they found to be in a very bad , way, but other States, such as Czecho- ; Slovakia, were progressing steadily.