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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12657, 10 January 1912, Page 6

An aphis is proving destructive to celery and other garden leaf crops this season says ithe Masterton Times. r Is the niotor car craze destroying home life m England ? Mr Albert Ha isteod, United States Consul at Birmingham, gives ,!an answer m tlie affirmative m a report' on the growing use of the automobile m England, "i am informed," he says, "that people are spending I less time at home, caring less for the attractiveness of home and . devoting their -surplus money, and even more than their surplus, to the purchase of auto mobiles and their upkeep. Real estate agents state that there is a decided tendency for people avlio do not own their own houses, and even for some of those avlio do own their houses, or the leaseholds, to take smaller nouses and to spend- the saving on rent and taxes m the purchase and maintenance of\ their automobiles. • Thfe theatres make the same complaint, as do those — though m a smaller degree — who sell musical instruments, Avhile booksellers, and even men's and women's clothiers and cos-tume-makers, find the motor car somewhat of an interference and injury to their business."