Travel Impressions of N.G.

Judge F. B. Phillips

Magistrate

AFTER a nine months’ tour of the world, in which he visited 29 countries, Judge F. B. Phillips, of Rabaul, New Guinea, ar rived in Melbourne recently by the m.s.

Tisnaren. He will spend three months in Victoria with his mother before returning to Rabaul.

Leaving Rabaul last year on his tour.

Judge Phillips proceeded to Malaya, Sin gapore, where he inspected the naval base, and then on to French Cochin-China. In Cochin-China he was impressed by the progress made by the French authorities.

He said that Japanese merchants were dumping goods there at ridiculous prices and had a monopoly on almost all goods save flour, which was imported from Aus tralia.

From the French territory, Judge Phil lips went through Asia to Europe via India, Iraq, Egypt and Syria. While in Syria he journeyed along the route of the oil pipe line which is now under con struction from Mosul to Haifa, the port of Palestine.

Western Europe, said the Judge, was in a state of uneasiness and unrest, but England seemed to have regained her solid foundations and overcome to a great degree the economic chaos which threat ened to engulf Europe during the past three years of depression.

Commenting on the Roosevelt N.R.A. plan, Mr. Phillips said that many of the President’s schemes were regarded in the States as experiments and the people were waiting hopefully for successful results.

The main opposition to Mr. Roosevelt’s plans, he said, came from the conservative section of Wall Street (the financial cen tre of New York). This section had always disapproved of the President’s radical measures, but, whereas formerly it had been taciturn, it was now voicing its opin ions loudly.