CONTRASTS IN MOSCOW.
POVERTY AND AFFLUENCE. BRITISH VISITOR'S EXPERIENCE. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. LONDON, April 11. Mr. Barrington Hooper, managing director of Industrial Newspapers. Ltd., the first member of the British trade delegation to return to London from Russia, says Moscow is a dilapidated city full of paradoxes. It looks poverty-stricken. The roads are full of pot-holes. The buildings are in a shocking state of disrepair. Everything in the shops is shoddy. Never once did Mr. Hooper see a woman wearing a decent pair of silk stockings. The hotels are bad and some are falling to pieces. Yet, Mr. Hooper says, he saw luxury not excelled in any capital in Europe. At the banquet given in honour of the delegation food and wines were of the choicest kinds to be obtained in Europe. Russia sorely needs plant and machinery and is most anxious to arrange for them. In Mr. Hooper's opinion the banks should explore the situation.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20229, 13 April 1929, Page 11
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158CONTRASTS IN MOSCOW. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20229, 13 April 1929, Page 11
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