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AUCTIONS. H. MATSON AND CO. JiOYAL COMMISSIONS AIIE SO (JO.N VKNIENT. Overseas "Daily Mail," January 16th, 1932.) (Bv a Social Observer.) fpWO years' talk. »- **20,000 cos'.. Two hundred pagu report. Twenty proposed row restrictions. Two <lava' wonder. Two thousand years' oblivion. That, iu brief, i,s likely to be the history oi the Drink Commission, whoso report has jr.st appeared. ISut, for all that, its existence need not M-cessarily have been entirely in vain. If it huflices to convince Governments that refer- 1 «nco to a committee or commission can no ledger bo tolerated as an excuse for ■ inderision, the nation may yet havo occasion to bicfi it? name. It is the crowning folly of an absurd »v»tem. During its term of office tho late Socialist Ijovcrnraent appointed 7j commissions and rr.iumittcrs to enquire into any and every subject upon which Minister:* were ioo feeble *.n make up their own mind*. Their investigations ranged from food to folk museums and from the dole to dust in < <,uon card rooms. THE BEST ADVISERS. Without oxception almost, thero was not ore upon which the Government, if it liked, could not have got immediate information and the most competent advice from its own Civil Servants, who, at the best, are the beat of advisers, and know more about any problem* of government than all the commissions and committees who ever sat. But tho snag in that was that the Civil Servants could have given their answers at once, and that was the last thing Ministers wr.nted. Faced by an urgent problem, their first demand was an excuse for ileay in the hope that the public mi'»ht forget, and i"im this cowardice arose the whole system (»; "Parsed on to you, please" on a large *cale, which goes either by tho name of a .Royal Commission or a Departmental Committee. Of this the Hoy&l Commission on Licensing (Ergland 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 I'oyal Commission on Licensing, which was appointed in 1800. That body eat for three years, examined 300 witnesses, and presented a variety of reports of wliioh nobody has cvnr taken the slightest notice since. The present Drink Commission only falls short of that record in one respect: it took 'wo years instead of three. But it did its hi'tt. On il.a own showing it completed the hearing of evidence in January, 1031, and occupied a whole year in writing its report. But for psychologists there is this amazij'S problem, so constantly recurring in public life: Why is it that a body of citizens, j.dmirab!o and tolerant individuals in private fife, hardly ever meet together as a committee without discovering that the rest nf us are not merely in need of more restrictions but actually joining for them? That, indeed, is what no mr.n can understand. It is probably one of those deep, dark things in the human consciousness that rearh back to immemorial days when the Diuids eat round Stonehcnge arc! meditated on the fate of the man who objected to being » human sacrifice. We should have had more pity for the members of this Commission, thus shown to lie the victims of a system, if they had bad the courage to resist tho promptings of thin ancient instinct. But they did not, and it U for the xest>of us to take warning. The wisdom of the wise is constantly engaged in undoing the folly of the good. It is time the wise were up and doing. If you aro a 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 cheese, The pigs are in the paddock eating all the peas, Tiia horse's in *tho stable eating all the hay, And Dad and Alum have bought a tar and gone to town to-day. The fowls are in the garden and the geese have flown away, The ducks are growing feathers and they'll bn ofl vomer day. >, * And when Sad and Mum come, back again you're bound to hear them say "We are going to live in thq city now, 'cau*e fanning l does not pay. Those cunhing little Chinamen, they lore their bit of ground; Where tho Aussie's make a shilling, the Chinese make a pound. "With their cabbages and cauliflowers and pumpkins in galore, They send them oat in cariloada and then come back for more. Some people often wonder hoar the Chinese make a do; ' But -remember they have l\am and eggs just the same as you. They love their bit of poultry and anything that's nice, They like their drop of whisky and. a basin full of rice. Xow we go back to Dad and Mum and the (lay they'left for town, ffwai then that they had plenty, now they V- haven't gotr a brown. • , Tho bakers got the motor-car, the butcher's got the pup; . The bailiff's got the furniture, 'twas. Jtand to give i* up. If you want to know the real "value of 1 your Property, ot any property upon which you have' a mortgage, entrust the'wine to: H. MATSON and CO. MILLIONS GOING A-QEGGING. In these hard-up times it seems incredible that dividends amounting to hundreds of thousands ot pounds a year are going a-begging for want of claimant; (says the Sheffield "Weekly Telegraph"). And yet, if you were to examine th<j hooks and balancesheets Of a thousand companies, you would find scarcely one without its records . of dividends unpaid—in some cases .the total sum- thus unclaimed may be only a . few pound*; but in' others it exceeds 20, 30, or 40 thousand. To what huge' proportions'these «ownerless dividends can grow is proved by -the statement that the books of tho Bank of Eng--1 ■ land alone show -dormant funds—many of them untouched for generating—amounting in the aggregate to nearly £8,000,000. The accounts which show these unclaimed riehsa number just under 11,000, and the •mounts range froin 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 belated 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 cammed names, and,-in this way, in many cases, comfortable fortunes were lost to posterity. Even in our own time this practice is not at all unusual. In other cases people, incredible as it may seom, will not.take the trouble to claim their dividends, bat allow them to accumulate year after year. But the causes responsible for this state of things are too many to give—such as loss of memory, aa investor dying abroad among stranger*, investments made secretly for different purposes, and so on. These and a hundred others are the causes why millions of pounds never come to the hands of their rightful owners. WHEAT, OATS, CLOVER. Lot us handle your crop. Prompt Delivery. H. MATSON and CO., Grain Department. INTERNAL PARASITES. RIVEKINA LAMBS AFFECTED. Beporting on the condition of sheep in the Jtiverina, a New South Wales Departmentai veterinary officer states ;—; "Lambs which were dropped in the autumn and winter are now weanerL They were illnourished owing to the failure of the ewes to milk well, and then became an easy prey to worms. They have never reached a stage of Health Which would render .them able to assume the ascendancy ovar the constant menace of' infestation. Then with tho coining of the summer they were further harassed by the abnormal amount of grass seed, and to some extent hy ophthalmia. Continual drenching hur been necessary to keep them alivei Ewos which were .infested have responded to treatment. In addition to drenching, the sheep. require to ' he supplied with an appropriate Mineral lick. "In the west, heavy mortalities from internal parasites in sheep have also been reported. "The need for supplying in-lamb ewes with ft mineral lick and feeding them as well as possible prior to lambing is obvious iu order that they may produce strong lambs and have plenty of milk. "The weakly lamb has no resistance/to parasitic infestation,' and succumbs quickly. There is need for early treatment to present gross infestation."' " M«#as