TOUR ABROAD

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16869, 5 February 1929, Page 11

TOUR ABROAD

NEW ZEALANDEB'S OBSERVATIONS The opinion thai the age of Protection for England was not very far away was expressed by Mr. 11. F. Yon Haast, of Wellington, who has returned after an extended tour overseas. Protection, he sairl, would not come directly, but by the extension of the safeguarding clauses. A sign of the times was that both employers ami employees were beginning to agitate for it. There .appeared to be a revival of business in England, bul there also seemed, to be sonic concern over the number of men who were emigrating, leaving a surplus of women.

While In England Mr. Vim Haast directed hbs attention to the stage and ean>o away with two definite impressions. One was (hat in the country towns a great deal was being done to encourage the drama by rfrpevtory companies, and the other was that in London the stage was entirely devoted to '' shockers" —plays of the sensational type—and revues.

After spending some time in England ntid in Scotland, in which latter country he attended the historical ITighk'iid Games at Brncmar, he visited Paris, Belgium-, Holland, Southern Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and the Riviera. In the parts of Germany which he visited he gained the impression that the hostile spirit had to a very large extent disappeared. The people to whom he spoiu- would not entertain any idea of the return of a monarchy. He was impressed by the prosperity he saw and the healthy took of the' people, especially the young people. They were well dressed and well fed, and lived an openair life.

While in Germany he visited the famous Munich Museum, where there is an exhibition of science and industry from the earliest times to the present, day. One of the sections of the museum is devoted to town planning anil in that portion he saw full plan.; of Canberra. He found at a big dog show in Munich that in the sheep dog class practically all the exhibits were Alsatian dogs.