COMPETION IN MARKET GARDENING.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 45, 22 February 1905, Page 10

COMPETION IN MARKET GARDENING.

(To the Editor.) Sir.—ln your issue of Wednesday there I appeared an article on the nbove. Now. i sir. ;i.s I am Ihe person to whom the j : article refers, 1 feel that I am bound to ! I reply, and give the true facts of the case. : • : I strongly object to ventilate neighbourly \ i grievances through the pres*. but in thi's i ■ lease 1 mu-t. The facts are these: For' I ■ over five years and up to last December. I I T had one man employed, and the man . miirht have been there yet as far as I am j concerned. The man left upon his own 1 a< cord, and went into the employ of Mr. j [Knight. People may draw what conclu1 -ion they may from this action. In the ! .; event or the sr.nie owurrinj; agiiin. and | i ! knowing the strong objections thai Mr. I ; J Knijrht has to Chinamen. 1 thought that ' ■ f would not be troubled again i:i having < ■ .to find a man. 1 quite agree with some r ; of Mr. Knight's remarks, but there are' '; exceptions, to all rul«-s. and in my par-1 • ucular case the Chinaman that I employ , is most cleanly. In conclusion. I may ! add that I pay exactly the sajnc wage ns Mr. Knight does. Sunday work 1 ■ ; strongly object to. and do not allow upon i I my place any more than i- necessary and ' ; usually done. I respect the Sabbath! \ equally at well as most of my neighbours. ! - i .Thanking you in anticipation.—l am. i I I etc.. B FRANSHAM. • j Avondale. J THE TAIHAPE DRINK TRAGEDY. • I ' j (To the Editor.l ; j >ir.—Permit mc to briefly comment ou ' j i the latest New Zealand drink tragedy, i ; as reported in your columns from Tai- ! ( ! hape. There ha.ye been very many simi- | ' liar episodes of late, with numerous other j i indications of tile shocking results of j "the trade." They have be n so numer- i ous indeed (hat we have discontinued re- ' ' j porting them in ""The Prohibitionist" ex- ! '■ cept in the form of a summarised refer- " j ence to their frequency. To many thousands of the most thoughtful people in New Zealand it i≤ a matter of amaze-1 : rr.ent that kindly, to say nothing of Christian, people should continue to vote j for a traffic so deadly. ' i We do not deny that alcohol is "a good ' ! creature of God." It is immensely usefu! | ; to the. manufacturer and for many other 1 j purposes. We do deny that this narcotic ; ■ poison, this nerve paralyser, this cul- | league of opium, morphia, cocaine, etber, I chloroform, etc... is ntted for internal j consumption by human beings, except, ■ j possibly, and of this I am dubious,, under ' I certain conditions of ill-health. It- sal- -, I as a beverage, pays the British Registrar I I of Deaths, involves the shortciiin.s , of the i lives of those who sell it behind bars by : : over forty (40) per cent. Ought any • .humane man to ask that the lives of his f fellow men shall be thus shortened for • his convenience? Its consumption as a i beverage by those who drink moderate! v 1 ! enough to secure acceptance by lif a as- i i j surance societies, shortens their lives by !,one-third, as shown recently in the Brit- - isu •■Medical Journal's" examination into >|the statistics that dealt with 000,006 ' years of lif?. Ought humane men to sup- • i port a custom >o disastrous.. It will : claim within thirty years at least 30,009 ■ ! of the young people in this colony to ■ ,; fill the ranks of those who tell the story I of ali-ohol's power in the police courts i and asylums, the mendicants' homes, ajid I 1 the fatality columns of the newspapers. • Ml think, sir. that very nearly a thousand ! casrs of the suffering and degradation 1 and sorrow that drink brings i E to the ' ! homes of the people of New Zealand have ' ; come under my personal knowledge dur- ' ] ing the last twenty years, and I wonder. [ j increasingly, nut that so many of my col- J j leagues break with impatience against Jthe barrier that keeps them from sweep- , i :r>sr with cleansing power over the socinl i life of this colony, but that Christian men , .land women, and alas. Christian minis- , ; . ters. should be found sayincr one word in j ; j defence of the sale of alcoholic liquors.— j ; I am, etc.. > FRANK W. ISTTT, , Secretary New Zealand Alliance. i

KEEL YACHTS V. PATIKIS. (To tha Editors Sir.—ln replying to ""Keel" in your paper of the 14th inst.. I do not think he is aware that the winner (Rose) of the so-cailed farce on Anniversary Day is a keel boat, and not a patiki, and has not got a centreboard, and she is eligible to race "with the keel boats mentioned in his lette.r. I agree with him that patikis should be a separate class. —I am, etc., AT,F. DEACON.