N.Z. CRITICISED
ENTERPRISE KILLED
AMERICAN’S COMPLAINT
WAGES NOT ADEQUATE
(11.30 a.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 16. The New Zealand Labour Government has killed all enterprise and opportunities for enterprise, according to Mr F Austin, a former captain in the United States Marines, who arrived on Friday by the Marine Phoenix.
Mr Austin settled in New Zealand after marrying a Now Zealand girl and spent 14 months in Hastings, where he tried to start an import business, and (hen tried to manufacture woodenware.
He said: “Any business is so surrounded by restrictions that you can’t move. You have to battle for weeks, or months, to get a price set for your artices. The shelves are bare, but they won’t increase production. New Zealand definitely offers no hope for businessmen It is o.k. if you are a skilled labourer, but even then wages average 19 dollars a week. An American railroad porter would turn up his nose at that. “New Zealanders are as hospitable in peace as in war, but New Zealand is no place for an American who had sufficient restrictions in wartime.” Mr Austin plans to return to. his former newspaper job in Kansas City.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22281, 17 March 1947, Page 2
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