CARPENTERR IN ENGLAND AND NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12934, 14 October 1907, Page 9

CARPENTERR IN ENGLAND AND NEW ZEALAND.

TO "THE O.V "IHK rHESS." Sir,—! l<aye waited fo.r some abler pen than mino to refute Borne of the Statements mad? to your reporter by Ml- Cnick » few days ago. I think I am only doiug my duty as an Englishman who has travelled all orer the Urijteil Kiiigd.ojn and Ijved ]n different parts to ■" f}e.tjy contradict the \vbole of the latter part of the article. It ie quite obvious that it is London he |s talking about and I cannot understand a colonial staying in London a feiy Qipivtb£ and then sotting Eimeeli up a* on England. However, to got to tho Jijßt bt all he epoake of carpenters living ia flats costing 1% to 8e a. week ana where, washing in hung gut of the windows. Goodness gracious! Outside of London and a very few town*, where are the flateP I must say that the probability it that a carpenter does not live in a, flat. Then we have Eng-lish-chops Is 2d a pound. Dear mc. I can assure jour readers that he must have boen a very high-das* butcher even in London to have asked such a price. Aβ to the other articles, Wgetables, bacon,. etc., being dearer," I entirely disagree with him. Take, for jflstatice, Lancashire and Yorkshire, »n.d these two counties contain 'more thfan a quarter of the population of England. , Can. he say foodstuff are no cheaper there? I the carpenter, especially if he ie married, wilj amilo at the assertion f^at , after expenses; are paid lie hmd a pound a weeV to p]ay T?Hh. ' In concluai<rn, \ miwt «ftj *M* it *V »rtiiaii at Home c«n.iK>t pw?bly save more than a shilling » week, now do they get here?—Yotitt, etc.,' ?- "' ■■■■"■