EAGER TO HIKE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 97, 27 April 1933, Page 8

EAGER TO HIKE.

ENGLISHMAN ON HOLIDAY.

LONG HOPE REALISED,

"I have been looking forward to seeing New Zealand for 40 years, and at last I am here," said Mr. J. C. Pringle, an Englishman, who reached Auckland by the motor ship Taranaki, from London, this morning. Mr. Pringle is, an enthusiastic hiker, and hopes to see at least some of the New Zealand countryside on foot. "I think hiking is the best way of seeing a strange country, for, after all, one city is very much the same as another," he said.

Like other Englishmen w'/o have come to New Zealand in recent months, Mr. Pringle is of the opinion that conditions are slowly improving in England. Questioned concerning unemployment, he said that in his opinion the statistics were largely illusory. They did not reveal the true state of affairs. Years ago, before people talked in terms of men out of work, England had a large floating body of unemployed. The present registration of the unemployed put the position more prominently before the public. "I can remember when the children in the East End of London went without shoes or boots, and families were starving, but such is not the case since the dole," he said.