PLEASANT AND CHEAP

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 69, 14 December 1932, Page 8

PLEASANT AND CHEAP

Life in Channel Islands

DOCTOR’S EXPERIENCES Although he is visiting New Zealand for the first time there are few countries in the world that have not been visited by Dr. T. S. Greenaway, of Guernsey, Channel Islands, who arrived at Wellington by the Monowai from Sydney yesterday morning. Dr. Greenaway has practised his profession in Australia and London, but since his retirement from active surgical work he has made Guernsey his home. His travels during the last year or so have included visits to South Africa, the British West Indies, British Guiana, and Australia.

Dr. Greenaway does not recommend the West Indies as a place for anyone to go to. The hotels there, he said, were poor and the food was bad. The cost of living was high, and the natives’ ideas of prices were simply ludicrous. In one of the islands, that of Trinidad, he understood they had come across a new species of hydrophobia, spread by infected bats. When they became infected. these bats fly about and infect human beings. Persons thus inoculated with the disease developed a form of paralysis from which they died in about eleven days.

Speaking of conditions in Australia, Dr. Greenaway said there had been an improvement, and that the people were much more hopeful of the future. This general improvement was particularly noticeable in the case of Queensland. “I have retired to the Channel Islands because they arc probably the safest, most pleasant, and least expensive place to live in in the British Dominions,” added Dr. Greenaway.