DOMINION TRENDS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23499, 13 May 1938, Page 7

DOMINION TRENDS

"A DAY OF RECKONING” VIEWS OF ANOTHER VISITOR (Special to Daily Times) AUCKLAND. May 12. Complete agreement with the views about certain aspects of New Zealand life recently expressed by Canon E. A. Gowring. canon of Bristol, is contained in a letter to an Auckland paper from Mr J R. Trevelyan another visitor to the Dominion “Although I have travelled extensively.’ he says, “ I have never seen anywhere so much drunkenness as in this Dominion “The waste of public money is deplorable. As a good example. I will give an experience I had near Opotiki. I went to a man's house to hire a boat for fishing The time was 11 a.m., and the man—a Maori —was fast asleep. I woke him. and he showed me his new house the Government was building for him. “I asked him.’’ savs Mi Trevelyan. “ why he had it so far from the road —about a mile and a-half away on a hillside He replied that he liked the view there, and the Government was making him a road up to his house We then went to see the two men engaged in filling in valleys to bring the road up to his house which ■>l rj have been placed 10 yards from the main road. but. as the owner said: ‘The Government pays, so why not get as much out of them as possible. He declined to come fishing with me, as he ‘would probably have another S * G ‘ No Government. however wealthy,” Mr Trevelyan continues. “ can afford to throw away the public s money like this, and when the next depression arrives, as it most assuredly will, the Government’s dav of reckoning will come “I entered New Zealand with the intention of settling here and investing a considerable amount of capital in this country, but I find that, owing to the trend of things under the present Government, it would be sheer madness to bring capital into the country, and I could name many people I have met who have formed the same ”sion. I only hone the people of New Zealand will see the way things are going before it is too late