SELLING CHRYSLERS AND CATCHING FISH

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 260, 24 January 1928, Page 13

SELLING CHRYSLERS AND CATCHING FISH

GENERAL MANAGER ON TOUR A MOTOR MAN’S HOLIDAY Fishing Is one of the two things that brought Mr. H. B. Phipps over to New Zealand on' the IJlimaroa this morning. As general manager of the Chrysler organisation for Australia and New Zealand, he will also run his practised eye over the Maoriland organisation during his stay. On Sunday next Mr. Phipps will be jdined by Mr. E. C. Morse, vice-presi-dent of .the Chrysler Company in America, who is expected to arrive that day by the Aorangi, and to the former will be entrusted the not unpleasant task of showing him some of New Zealand’s fishing, the fame of which is now spreading overseas. That a ibuch brighter tone at present exists in Australia was the opinion given by Mr. Phipps to a Sun representative. In Western Australia exceptionally good wheat crops, were promised, and in New South Wales they were considered to be fairly good. A rather severe drought in Queensland had made its presence felt, but a good recovery was now being made. Business people had also paid an attentive ear to the advice given by the banks, said Mr. Phipps, and the result was to be seen in a greater allround stability. With the defeat of the Labour Government in New South Wales an easier tone immediately became apparent and commercial prospects were accordingly much brighter in that State now than was formerly the case. From the reports received in Australia, said Mr. Phipps, the impression over there was that New Zealand was making a steady recovery and was progressing on sound and substantial lines. .. “We do very well here, he added. “It is a good country for business.”