CONDITIONS IN HOMELAND.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16607, 10 December 1924, Page 9

CONDITIONS IN HOMELAND.

VISIT OF DP, A. L. SINGER

Hr A. L. Singer, accompanied by Mrs Singer and family, have returned to Gisborne after an absence of twelve months, spent in England and on the Continent. Proceeding Home by the Rimutaka, the Gisbornites travelled -via Panama. They were most- of the time in the Old' Country, spending several months abroad in Switzerland, Italy and France. They returned by the Orient steamer Ormuz, via Suez.

Interviewed by a. Herald representative to-day, Dr Singer said one could not fail to observe the unsettled conditions and the feeling of depression that prevailed at Home as the outcome of the great war and the foreign competition. It was apleasure to he back in New Zealand again and to see the evidence of prosperity, especially the happy faces as the outcome of the recent wool sales.

Dr /Singer said lie was much impressed with the tremendous growth of motor traffic in the metropolis. .The London autfiorities were being hard pressed to cope with the great mass of humanity that poured in and out of the city each day. The speed of the. motor traffic was

remarkable, and yet it was easier to drive in London, with the splendid regulation of the traffic, than in some of the towns in’the Dominion. Motoring around London as he did. Dr. Singer said that it was a great sight to see the constant stream of motor ears on ilia main roads out of London on Sunday mornings.

Speaking oT London generally, and comparing if, with war conditions. Dr. Singer said there was a vast amount of •re-building in progress. This was noticeable especially in Regent’ street and the Strand. Another innovation was the wholesale introduction of electric advertising signs. The buildings round Piccadilly Square, for instance, were each evening ablaze with remarkable advertising devices, so much so that it has been termed then “Scotchman's cinema,” “Scotch” being a- prominent feature of the landscape.

The Gisbornite look an opportunity to visit various London hospitals and also St. •Andrew’s \ research clinic at Si. Andrew’s. Scotland. -At this clinic valuable research work was boiling carried out. The object aimed at was tbo investigation of diseases, in the incipient stages, ‘the research following up individual ,cgsro from childhood with a view to ascertaining the causes of • disease as disclosed by the earliest symptoms. A, great fund of valuable information was thus , being gathered which would in time have an important bearing cm the safeguarding of health. In thci case of ordinary hospital research, patients wore generally received in the more advanced stages of disease, but the St. Andrew's clinic was conducting its research work from infancy.