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AUCTIONS. H. MATBON AND 00. ROYAL COMMISSIONS ARE SO CONVENIENT. (Overseas "Daily Mail," January 16tli, 193-J (By a Social Observer.) , M'vVO years' talk. X £20,000 cost. Two hundred page report. ' Twenty proposed lew restrictions. Two days' wonder. Two thousacd years' oblivion. That, in brief, is likely to be tha history of the Drink Commission, whose report has juit appeared. , . But, for all that, its existence need not necessarily have been entirely in vain. If it suffices to convince Governments that reference to a committee or commisaion can no longer be tolerated as an excuse for indecision, the nation may yet have occasion to blees its name. It is the crowning folly of an a'bsuru system. . ~ During its term of office the late Socialist Government appointed 73 commissions and committees to enquire into any and every nubject upon which Ministero were xoo feeble to make up their own minds. Their investigations ranged from food to folk museums and from the dole to dust in cotton card rooms. THE BEST ADVISERS. Without exception almost, there was not one upon which the Government, if it liked, could not have got immediate information and the moßt competent advice from its own Civil Servants, who, at tho best, are the best of advisers, and know more about any problems of government than all the commissions and committees who ever sat. But the anag in that was that the Civil Servants could have given their answers at once, and that was the last thing Ministers wnnlcd. Faced by an urgent problem, their lirst demand was an excuse for delay in the hope that the public might forget, and from this cowardice arose the whole system of "Pajsed on to you, please" on a large Pcale, which goes either by the name of a Royal Commission or a Departmental Committee. ( Of this the Royal Commission on Licensing (England and Wales) —to give it its full title --was a notorious example. There was even a precedent for this behaviour in the history of the last previous Royal Commipsion on Licensing, whioh was appointed in 189 G. That body flat for three years, examined 250 witnesses, and presented a variety of reports of whioh nobody has ever taken the slightest notice since. The present Drink Commission only falls short of that record in one lespect: it took two years instead of three. But it did its beat. On its own showing it completed the hearing of evidence in January, 19-31,' and occupied a whole year in writing its report. But for psychologists there is this amazing- problem, eo constantly recurring in public life: Why is it that a body of citizens, ndmirable and tolerant individuals in private fife, hardly ever meet together as a committee without discovering that the rest 'of us are not merely in need of more restrictions but actually pining for t-hem? That, indeed, is what no man can underst'ind. It is probably one of those deep, dark things in'tho human consciousness that back to immemorial days when the Druids 'sat round Stonchenge arc! meditated o.'i the fate of the man who objected to being . a human sacrifice. We should have had more pity for the members of this Commission, thus ehown to be the victims of a system, if they had had the courage to resist the promptings of this ancient instinct. But they did not, and it is for the rest of us to take warning. The wisdom of the wise is constantly engaged in undoing tho folly of the good. It is time the wise were up and doing. If you" are ft Land Holder and you want to sell, or you want to buy, entrust your realisation to H. MATSON and CO. WHY FARMING DOES. NOT PAY. The rats are in the dairy eating all the cheeso, The pigs are in tho.paddoak eating all the peas, The horse's in the stable eating all the hay, And Dad and Mum havo bought a car and gone to town to-day. ' The fowls are in the garden and the geese have flown away,. The ducka ate growing feathers and they'll be off some day, . * '

And when Dad, and Muni come tack ogam ; . you're bound to heat them «ay "We are going to live in the city now, 'cavue farming does not pay. 1 Those cunning l little Chinamen, they love their bit of ground; Where the Aussie's make a shilling, the ■ Chinese make a pound. With their cabbages and cauliflowers and pumpkins in galore, : . ■ They send them out in cartloads and then come back {or more. Some people often wonderi.hour the Chinese make a do; , ' But remember they have ham and egg* just the eame as you. * They love their bit of poultry and anything that's nice, . They like 1 their drop of whisky and a basin full of rice. .. Now we go back to Dad. and Mum and the day'they left for town, 'Twas then that they had plenty, now they haven't got a brown. The baker's got the motor-car, the butcher's > got the pup; The bailiff's got the furniture, 'twas hard, to give it up. • 'lf you want to know the real value of your Property, or any property upon which you hay© ft mortgage) entrust tho same to: H. MATSON and CO. MILLIONS GOING A-BEGGING. , In these hard-up times it seems incredible that dividends amounting to hundreds of thousands of pounds a yearare going a-begging for want' of claimants (says the <Sheffield "Weekly.Telegraph 1 '). And yet, if you were to examine the books and. balance, sheets of a thousand companies, you would; find scarcely one without its records of dividends unpaid—-In some casea-the total " sum thus unclaimed may be only a few pounds; bat in others it exceeds 20, 80, or 40 thousand. To what huge proportions these ownerleis dividends can-grow is . proved by the state* ment that the books of' the Bank of England alojia show dormant funds—many of them untouched tar generations—amounting in the aggregate to nearly £8,000,000,. > The'accounts which show these' unclaimed riches number just under 11,000, and the amounts range from a few pounds to one colossal sum of £187,000 odd. And .so-it is everywhere; and the. irony of it all>'is that not a few of the people who are—though they do not know it—entitled to these be- - lated dividends- and dormant capital : are, at the moment in a state of absolute poverty. The causes responsible for these' millions of ownerless■ dividends are countless. In the. eighteenth century, : when speculation in shares was considered quite a sin, it was a common practice for men to invest under assumed names, and, in this way, in many casei, comfortable fortunes' were lost '-to", posterity. ■_ Even in our own time thia practice is not At alt unusual, ' ' In other'cases people, incredible as it may seem, vwill not take the trouble to claim . their dividends, but allow them to accumulate yea* after ye%r. But the causes responsible for this state of things are too many to give—»u<?h as loss of memory: an investor dying abroad among strangers, investments made secretly for different purposes, and so on. Thele pnd a hundred Others art the causes why millions of pounds' never' come to the hands of their rightful owners! WHEAT, OATS, CLOVER. j Let us handle your crop. |

Prompt -I>eli very., H. MATSON and CO., . Grain Department.

"internal parasites. RIVERINA LAMBS AFFECTED. Reporting on the condition of aneep m the Riverina, a New South' Wales Departmental veterinary officer states "Lambs which were dropped in the autumn and winter. »re now weaners. They were ill-, nourished owing to the failure of theewes to milk well, and thenbeczunoan easy prey to 'worms. They'have never reached a stage of health which would render them able to assume the ascendancy . over the constant menace of infestation. Then with the coming of the auinmer, they, were further harassed by the abnormal omount of grass seed, and to "Otne extent by Ophthalmia* Continual drenchiof his been iteaenury toV keep them aliv«. Ewes which were infested have responded to treatment. In addition to. drenching, the sheep -require t« be: supplied with an appropriate mineral lick. "In the west, heavy mortalities front internal' patailtes in -sheep have also been reported. ; "The need for supplying in-lftmb ewes With » mineral lick and feeding them as well AS possible < prior to limbing is obvious in -order that they may produce strong lambs <and have plenty of milk. weakly .lamb has no resistance to. parasitic infestation, and uucuumbs quietly. Thore is need for early to. prevent gross infestation.". M66UB