AUCKLANDER ABROAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 237, 7 October 1930, Page 5

AUCKLANDER ABROAD.

TOURING EUROPE BY CAB

MR. J. PASCOE'S RETURN,

Accompanied by his wife and daughter, Mr. James Pascoe, president of the New Zealand Bowling Association, returned to Auckland by the Aorangi yesterday. Mr. Pascoe has been abroad for nearly two years. " The present depression is world-wide, and everywhere you go you hear the eanie old story," saidMr. Pascoe. " Unemployment in England is very bad, especially in the north, although there seems to be' a. feeling that bottom has been reached, and that the future will be brighter. We in New Zealand are better off than in most other places." Mr. Pascoe and his

family went Home

via the East. While in the Old Country he repi-esented New Zealand at a conference of the International Bowling Board in Wales. After touring England in his own , car, which, he had shipped from New Zealand, he went to the Continent, where he spent eight months. " Car travel is by far the beet way to tour, but don't take your own car," he said. " The best thing to do is to pick up a cheap car in England, as some of the drivers on the Continent will run right into you and think nothing of it. The Frenchman is particularly dangerous. The garaging arrangements are also far below those in England and America, and it is not unusual to have your car smashed up while it is garaged." The roads in Italy, said Mr. Paecoe, were like washboards, and Mussolini was spending £7,000,000 in improving them. The Duce had 55,000 men and boys employed on the work. Strangely enough the stone for the roads was not being crushed by up-to-date methods, but Avas being broken up with hammers on the Roadside.