DOMINION PRAISED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 145, 21 June 1935, Page 8

DOMINION PRAISED.

ENGLISH VISITOR. PROGRESSIVE COUNTRY. LACK OF BUSINESS APPLIANCES So impressed with Xew Zealand and its people ie Mr. L. B. Woolley, a visitor from London, that he intends to return at the first opportunity to see more of its scenic beauties, and when he goes back to Great Britain to acquaint his friends of the charms of this country. Mr. Woolley, who is head of the systems department of Roneo, Ltd., London, the largest manufacturers in the world of eteel furniture and office appliances, has spent a week in the Dominion in the course of a business tour of the world. He left London in April laet, and will arrive back there on March 1 next, after visiting Australia, the Dutch East Indies, Hongkong, China, Malay Straits and India, n

"I have thoroughly enjoyed myself in Xew Zealand," said Mr. Woolley this morning. "I have found the New Zealand people to be the niceet people I have yet had to meet. I have made up my mind to come back and make a long stay hero. 1 assure you I will not forget to tell other people about your country when' I return Home." Postal Service Efficient. Mr. Woolley added that he was greatly impressed with the progress that had been made by* so young a country as New Zealand, particularly 30 far'as facilities for communication — the roads, the railways and telephones —were concerned. He was full of praise for the Post and Telegraph Department, with which he had had a considerable amount of dealing in the course of his flying visit. He thought the postal service one of the most efficient he had ever seen. He had received nothing but efficient and courteous treatment, and it had been a pleasure to him to do business with the Department. The position, unfortunately,' was not the same in some other countries he had visited. In the matter of business efficiency, however, Mr. Woolley was of the opinion that there was room for improvement. In view of the. fact that Sew Zealand was exceptionally progressive in almost every other walk of life, he felt that the lack of business appliances was due solely to the fact that the heavy duties imposed by the Government on such goods had placed them almost beyond the reach of the would-be purchaser. That this was liable, to lead to considerable restrictions in the installation of efficient modern equipment, which was essential under the present difficult conditions, was proved, said Mr. Woolley, by the fact that he was going to Hongkong to supervise the complete reorganisation Tf the records and filing system of the 'ending banking house of the East. A •loint of interest to New Zealand people irose in the fact that owing to the earthquake risks, in all the equipment 'o be installed, nnd in the buildinsr itself, 'here would not be one particle of wood. Because of that the bank might decide* *o carry its own insurances on the building , . Mr. Woolley said he had found New Zealand business men extremely receptive to new ideas, and keenly interested 'n fostering relations with the Mother ■""oi'ntry. Conditions in Great Britain •md shown a definite improvement and there was to-day a feeling approaching nrosperity.