HOMEWARD BOUND

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25301, 11 August 1943, Page 3

HOMEWARD BOUND

NEW ZEALAND POLITICIANS (Rec. 10.45 p.m.) SYDNEY, Aug. 10.

The New Zealand members of Parliament. Messrs L. G. Lowry and W. P. Endean, are in Australia on their way home. Members of the Australian delegation to the Empire Parliamentary Conference at Ottawa, who have been touring North America grid the United Kingdom, also returned. They were rushed from Ottawa to New York and across the continent by a United States army train in order to reach Australia before polling day on August 21. Mr Lowry said they had been tremendously impressed by the high morale of the British people and their united support for Mr Churchill. The fortitude and energy of the British was magnificent. The Australian delegates spoke of ihe tremendous size of the British and American production programmes. Everyone in Britain had for his slogan “ Victory Depends On Me.” ' “We saw people who had their homes blown away the night before working hard at their lathes the next morning,” said a delegate. “In what little leisure time they have they tend vegetable gardens in the public parks and wherever there is a vacant piece of land. We saw factories employing up to 50,000 people. At least half the employees in Britain are women, and one factory we visited employed 98 per cent, of women. We were taken to giant bomber, fighter, and tank factories and shipbuilding yards in Britain, Canada, and America, and it is all very encouraging.”