FREEDOM

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 63, 16 December 1946, Page 4

FREEDOM

Saturday Races

The “continued round of racing on Saturdays” was having a very’ bad effect, on sport, said Mr A. R. Blank, chairman of the Canterbury Council of Sport, at the council’s meeting. The council decided, oh Mr Blank’s motion, to write asking the National Council of Sport to consider /recommending that the prewar arrangement of racing fixtures be reverted to. “It’s a vez’y serious thing,” said Mr Blank. “Young men are being encouraged to have £2 on both ways when they might be on the cricket field bowling a couple of wrong ’uns. I'think it encourages young men to go to the races of playing healthy games. It is certainly making it difficult for, quite a number of sports.” Mr R. A. Smith said he thought a letter had been written to the Government about the effect of Saturday racing on cricket. However, he thought, Saturday racing would continue. Formerly, he said, with a week of races, a man might have his racing and be “broke” at the end of the week. Now the races could get a man’s wages for eight Saturday’s running, and the Government took the taxes.

“Fair Dinkum” Shortage

UNTIL free institutions, including freedom of trade, are re-established in Europe prosperity will not return to any part of the Western world. That is not because there is any great magic in Parliaments, or\any magic at all in legislation, but rather to the contrary. Free institutions, imply and ensure that men are able to act freely in v all their capacities, that they are free to produce and free to consume, free to lend and free to borrow, that the whole infinitely complex mechanism of a free international industrial society can be slowly put together again, stocks accumulated, margins safeguarded, and capital taken out of political hafids- and put back into productive enterprise. UntiFthis is done there will be constant famines and shortages of essential raw materials which.no politicians, whatever the colour of their-shirts, will be able to avert.—Douglas Jerrold in New English Review. - •

To emphasise the apparent shortage of cigarettes, a Milford tobacconist has appended to the now familiar “sorry, no cigarettes or tobacco” notice on his counter the words: “This is fair dinkum.” In the Auckland city queues for cigarettes are lengthening and last week at least 30 people were waiting their turn at one shop where supplies were very limited, as. they are throughout the city.

Handwriting of Students “What was the reaction of the examiners on the handwriting?” asked Mr I. Sladen at a recent meeting of the council of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce after a report on the commercial examinations was given. “Were they favourably impressed or could they not read the papers at all.” The assistant. secretary (Mr K. W. Hobbs) replied that no reports on handwriting had been received from the examiners: unofficially he could say that there -was “a lot lacking.” The president said the report on the examinations was very satisfactory. “Except for the handwriting,” added Mr Sladen.