AFTER MANY YEARS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6384, 5 December 1907, Page 5

AFTER MANY YEARS.

NEW ZEALANDER’S VIEWS OF GREAT BRITAIN.

Mr H. Field, a former resident of W-ellington, returned to the Dominion by tho lonic yesterday, after an abduce of two years spent in tho British isii’s. which ho Imd left twenty-eight years previously for fresh fields and pastures now. AD* Field when in ■ Wellington took an active interest in industrial matters. Speaking; to a “Tunes” reporter yesterday on industrial affairs in Britain, lie said he was surprised to tind that trade gonerally was busy, especially in tlie manufactoring districts in Lancashire, where the cotton mills were all fully employed, wore working overtime, and were increasing their power. ‘‘ln politics it is evident, I think,” remarked Air Field, “that groat changes *iro going to take place in tho near fuuire. There is a break-ing-up of the old parties, and an introduction of a now power, whereby the worker is coming to bo more fully recognised, f riie highest ideals are becoming more widely spread, and altogether, looking back on the twentyeight years since I left, I see very great cltangcs industrially and socially. “I was impressed immensely with the extensive provision now mad© for parks and recreation grounds in all tho cities and towns, and with the improved methods of lighting the cities. The dark, dingy cities and towns are now things of the past, the lighting now* being done by electricity.” Concerning Industrial conditions, Mr Field said: —“Of course, wages are fTtill low, tbo hours of labour long, and tliero are, notwithstanding tho general improvement and tho general apparent prosperity, a gi*oat many unemployed. It still woems as if there is no room for tho people there. I wont through nearly the whole of the United Kingdom, from the Land’s End, near Penzance, Cornwall, to tho Giants’ Causeway, in the North of Ireland, so I had, therefore, a very fair opportunity of getting bo know tb© condition of things.”