GERMAN EXPANSION.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 127, 21 February 1908, Page 5

GERMAN EXPANSION.

... EUROPEAN IMPRESSIONS. AUTOMOBILES AND " AYIRELESS " {BY. TELEGRAPH—SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) Auckland, February 20. , ■ Professor F. D. Brown, of tho Auckland Univorsity College, who has returned from a twelve;months' trip in tho Old World, has bc6n giving his impressions of his travels.. ■Professor Brown referred to the prosperity and progress of Germany. "No ono who has not travelled in Germany of-recent years," ho said, " can form any idea of tho enormous extension of prosperity of this nation and tho. manufacturing capacity of tho country. .German towns, which I knew twenty-five years ago as small and unimportant , places, hrivo become great manufacturing cities, well laid out, with . fino broad streets. The Western 'provinces aro dotted with great manufacturing establishments. Thirty years ago there wero few or none at all. ; "In France, however, there has not been the same' progressiveness noticeable, and the towns of the interior are very much tho same as'l knew them many years ago,- comparatively littlo chango having taken place. " In the' Old World wiroless telegraphy is becoming very popular. Tho steamer by which! travelled across to Holland was fitted up for sending messages for tho convenience of : passengers. Many telegraphed by this means, and reserved rooms in the Dutch hotels from tho middlo of the North Sea. Tho-ordinary.charge is two francs.(ls. Bd.). Tho!steamer I caught on the homo journey, was" also fitted with tho apparatus. South of Suez we failed 'to get any reply to our attempts to communicate with other vessels. ■ " One of tho most noticeablo things in England and tho Continent," tho Professor said, " is. the extent to which motor traction is used in addition to tho very general uso, of, motor omnibuses and cabs. Quite a number of trades havo thrown ; asido their horses foi motor-propelled vehicles. For examplo, the browers' horses, at-ono timo a conspicuous object .in, Londcn streots and all over England, have now been replaced by motor ifagons, and tho delivery of ,beer to private, houses and elsewhere is. mado by.theso moderni vehicles, which are also being used exten-. sively., by builders, contractors, coal, "and ice morchants, etc."'