LOS ANGELES VISITOR

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 278, 20 August 1938, Page 10

LOS ANGELES VISITOR

Member Of Consular Service

CITY OF MANY LARGE INDUSTRIES

The production of motion pictures was not the only industry in Los Angeles, and it was probably not the biggest, said Mr. J. Playfair Price, assistant British Consul in Los Angeles, who arrived at Wellington by the Ruahine yesterday. The oil industry was tremendous, so were the citrus and also the plant construction industries, he said. An increasing number of factories and businesses were being established, and it might be said that the population of the United States wa« slowly shifting toward southern California.

Dlr. Price, who is accompanied by his wife, intends to spend six months in New Zealand. It is a visit to which he has been looking forward for years. “I felt it was wrong that I should so often do work for the Dominion and yet never have seen it,” he said. Before going to Los Angeles IS months ago, Dlr. Price was in China for 10 years; he was in Dlanchuria before and after ihe Japanese occupation, and during the border hostilities between China and Japan in 1929, and Japan and Russia in 1935-37; he was in Peking when it was captured by the Nationalists, and was at one time attached to the Indian political service in Nepal. For an example of a well-governed country on old-fashioned lines, with t» minimum of disturbance, it would be bard to beat Nepal, said Dlr. Price. It was one of the few countries in the world absolutely untouched by white Influence.