"WON'T WORK"

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XIX, Issue 6390, 5 December 1921, Page 2

"WON'T WORK"

THE CNEMPLOVEI) LX ENGLAND

NEW ZEALAND LIES VIEWS

No one knows wbai is wrong with

England. No olio seems to wish to

work." remarked .Mr W. Eitzherberr, cf Pal North. who returned to New Zealand by the lonic recently, lie also staled that; t bore teas scarcely any demand for Now Zealand Irozen beet in England. Mr Eitzborlu r. has been in England for tbo lasi six months, having in addiCoti paid a vif-it to France ami the baillefields and iielgMim. Ileslalcs tliaf England 'does not seem to want to work. “It was a revelation to me in Franco

and Belgium," be said. "Everywhere I 'went, I saw work—real work. Land worker,,, are making magnificent efforts. an ( i( indeed in all branches of labour much is being done. I low different (bis is to Hie (Ed (Mnnlry . One sees every 'day crowds of lII.IKiO to dO.IICO at cricket matches, mot ball matches, or at

i raei-s. No one .-emiis to he puiting any eifori. inio roeoiist met i.m - • and the resell is i hat things are very laid.. The unemployment dole lias prmed something of a farce. In hundreds of eases men are ijliito satisfied willi the dole—so much so Ilia I they desire to keep away frtim good bard work,' 1 Tbo unpopularity of New Zealand frozen beef was stressed by the DominJon's ini’iirnumt. "New Zealand wit, have to realise that she cannot compete in the matter of beef with the Argentine,'’ lie saidl “Argentine chilled beef is proving far more ar-captable, both as regards quality and nearness of the exporting country to Rriiain, However, New Zo dand butter. IVozni mull on and lamb cannot be bealeii. There is a god 1 demand for il. I had some frozen lamb in Umdon recently and il -was the finest lamb I have ever tasted, fresh or frozen."

.Mr Pilzherbeil said that although there seemed to be a great deal erf money in London, it came mostly loom tourists. There was great financial .slritigeney at Home, * He considered that a great deal of teal hardship bad been caused in England by the cessation of, a great, deal 'of shipbuilding. ‘This is due partly In the i'attll. of the Covernmentd’ ho stiid. ‘■iMany I'lerma.n slcp-v Were ta,keu by the Imperial tiovernmenl in Ijen oj indemnity. and the result has been that other, s have not been built.