After All!

A Look at New Zealand lands Life Is Not So Bad After All!

[From A. M. Gurau, in Apia ;am amazed to find how

usive are many articles and

isities of daily life in New

tnd, compared to the prices

ay in Western Samoa. iS is the strongest impression bring back to Apia after just aving completed a New :nd holiday. . . certainly is amazing to find men’s shirts, priced at 18/- to Apia stores, are from 35/- to

n approximately the same

;y in New Zealand. And this difference is reflected in other of clothing, and in hardware other necessities, j exception is foodstuffs, which heaper in New Zealand. And idition many New Zealanders their own. . ial security charges and in tax add to the high cost of • in New Zealand; luxuries like 'co and cigarettes and liquor iso more expensive, and hotel restaurant prices are also high. ,ges for the unskilled are high many workers earn extra with ime, thus earning £25 and more ek and as a result own their house, car and have modern ;hold appliances.

Skilled Are No Better the other hand the skilled isman in New Zealand does not ar to earn more than the un d, and sometimes earns even Young people leaving school do not want to serve a five ) apprenticeship when they can good wages right away, e’s a shortage of apprentices rwhere. „ , vertheless, most New Zealanders houses and household ances on instalment and thus, ; enjoying an exceptionally standard of living, they are le to save much out of their seemed to me that Samoans have settled in New Zealand generally doing very well. It a revelation to attend services le Pacific Islanders Church in [land and see the properous ng congregation of Samoans l the Church to the last corner, it there is a darker side to the ire of Samoan life in New and. Many Samoans crowd the ic bars of the Auckland hotels, apparently spend a good deal j of their wages on liquor than can afford.