A COLONIAL IN LONDON.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 6 December 1924, Page 13

A COLONIAL IN LONDON.

IMMENSELY IMPRESSED. A resident of British Guiana who has been revisiting London after an absence of 48 years, in an interview with a Daily Mail reporter recently, said: — “In London I have been immensely impressed by its enormous growth and by the general air of prosperity, as well as by the wonderful way in . which men, women, and children hustle along jumping off omnibuses and tramway-cars fearlessly, without apparently realising tlie surrounding dangers of the congested traffic. The growth of the vehicular means of getting about is marvellous — omnibuses innumerable going in all directions to all parts of London and the suburbs ; tramway-cars, taxicabs, motorcars of every kind, huge vans of great variety, and motor-coaches. In fact London is to-day one seething mass of life of all conceivable kinds. “One thing has surprised me. that the General Post Office still uses horses for its postal vans. Too much praise cannot lie riven to the London Police Foi-f'e: a set of finer men it would be hard to conceive; their patience in ’-egulating the enormous traffic and their readiness to answer innumerable questions are wonderful. It is a rare thing to see a London police officer get into a temper. “The size of the buildings and the display of goods in the windows and showcases take one’s breath away. Then Lcndon at night is like a fairy scene. Wembley is a marvellous illustration of resou-ces of our Empire and lias fully justified its existence. A visit to it (one is not much use, fifteen or twenty are neededl does not "ive one the idea of a decadent Empire.”