”A man is better on a week in England than, on £5 a week in New Zealand. The prices for everything here are exorbitant." This view was expressed to a Southland Times reporter by Mr. G. Sewell, retired chief engineer ol a big iron and brass fitting firm in Doncaster. England. Mi. Sewell has been in New Zealand for more J2 months on a. leisurely tour of Die country. I’ricos j n New Zealand, be said, were, twice as high as they were in England. Clothing, ears, rent, fuel and' foodstuffs were all high in price. Ho mentioned one make °* car that cost an Englishman Cino. In New Zealand, he said, Die sanm car ‘W more than £2ffi>. Motoring was nearer in all ways. Petrol was hl’ a gallon in England, and was and more in New Zealand, he said. “If it was not for Die rale of exchung. , English people could not come io Dio Dominion. The. prices of everything would be too much for them," Mi. Sewell added. ’ i
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 February 1939, Page 2
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