DIVERSE OPINIONS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16201, 26 November 1926, Page 7

DIVERSE OPINIONS

BRITISH COAL CRISIS NEW ARRIVALS' VIEWS (Special lo the Herald.) AUCKLAND, this day. Opinions on conditions following the coal strike in Britain were sought from passengers aboard the Arawn, which arrived from Liverpool yesterday. The result was interesting only from its similarity—so contrasting were the observations made —to the unsophisticated days when "firsthand knowledge of prohibition" was taken seriously as a news topic. '-The country has gone to the,dogs, 'and everything is at a standstill,''' said one of the nominated immigrants. }fis dictum was keenly endorsed by a shipmate. ' "1 saw no evidence of anything out. of the common," said a New Zealand professional man who was returning after an extended tour of England and Scotland. "The train fares are the same as at the end of the war. and the only people who seem to be fooling the pinch are the eo;il miners." "It will go on for months; of that f am certain," said the representative of n number fit! London commercial houses on his way to Sydney. "It is a distressing prospect, and everybodv is beginning to feel the effects."

"The country is having a rough time," said a man who is coining to accept a responsible appointment in New Zealand, "but the people ar.' cheerful and determined to see it through. It is far from being a disaster, and there is every ground for optimism."

A clergyman who was approached would say no more than "England is not the countrv she was in bvffone da vs."

"It's half and half, but. I think it will soon be over," said a ship's officer. "The sooner if is over the better. 1 don't: want another voyage with Hun coal."