CONDITIONS AT HOME

Evening Star, Issue 19891, 13 June 1928, Page 3

CONDITIONS AT HOME

ERGUSH MANUFACTURER'S VIEWS “ Conditions at Home in many trades arc very materially improved,” said Mr Morris May, a member of tho clothing manufacturing firm of Messrs Joseph May, Ltd., Leeds, England, to a ‘ Star ’ reporter yesterday afternoon. He added that there was certainly no more unemployment to-day than there was a year ago, and, in fact, statistics showed that there wore 17.000 odd less. Mr May is on a visit to New Zealand to re-establish his firm's business connection which was allowed to lapse during the last seven or eight years, and as an English manufacturer he said that lie felt, that an excellent example had been set English business men by the travels of members of tho Royal Family. ” It is only by visiting markets and coming into personal contact with buyers that one can attempt to-study tho requirements- of a market,” said Mr May. It was generally known that during the past four or five years principals in almost every industry at Home bad been visiting the overseas markets, and it was to some extent due to the knowledge of the markets they had brought back that conditions at Home bad improved somewhat.

Mr May was very much impressed with the cities lie has already visited, ami tho courtesy invariably shown to him by the New Zealand business men. So far as the country generally was concerned, it was a delightful experience to travel by road from Rotorua to Napier, and thence to Wellington, observing the rich, fertile country so simiar to the Old Country. “ I have been agreeably impresses Zealand hotel accommodation,” Mr May said in reply to a query. The service and food he regarded as being beyond criticism. A -up of coffee after lunch and dinner was a luxury to which they were not iccustomed at Home, not, to mention he early morning tea. and invariably ho morning paper.