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Southland Times, Issue 22474, 9 November 1934, Page 3

“When I first went to the United States five months ago, President Roosevelt was popular, but during the last month there were distinct evidences that he was not so popular,” said. Dr Leslie C. L. Averill, who returned to Christchurch on Saturday morning after a visit to the United States to see his old friend and tutor, Professor B. P. Watson, professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Columbia University, who was previously at Edinburgh. “Mr Hoover has been engaged in writing many articles, and he has also published a book dealing with the economic problems facing the States, and his expressed opinions have had a tendency to throw some doubt on Roosevelt’s moves,” said Dr Averill. “Many business men with whom I came in contact complained about these moves of the President, and there is no doubt that they have been responsible for actuating a certain amount of unrest in business circles.”