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auctions. H. MATSON AND GO. T UOYAL COMMISSIONS ARE SO CONVENIENT. (Overseas "Daily Mail," 1U32,) (By a Social Observer.^ WO yeaib' talk. JKO.OOO cost. Two hundred page report. Twenty proposed icw restrictions. Two days' wonder. Two thousand years oblivion. That, in brief, is likely to be tha history oi the Drink Commission, whoso report has that, its existence need not r.t-ceasai-ily have been entirely in vain. It » fcufttea to convince Governments that refer,..lCo to a committee or commission can no lon"er be tolerated as an excuse for md - cisiion, the nation may yet have occasion t bl ir ;r thT—vmng folly of an absurd During its term o£ office the lata Socialist Government appointed 75 commissions and committees to enquire into any and every subject upon which Ministers were ioo feebla to make up their own minda. Their investigations ranged from food t<> ;'o)k museums and from the dole to dust cotton card rocins. THK BEST ADVISERS. Without exception almost, there was n.ut one. upon which the Government, if it liked, could not have got immediate information and the most competent advice from its oun Civil Sen-ants, who, at the best, are the best o[ advisors, and know more about any problems of government than all the commissions and committees who ever sat. But the a nag in that was that the Civil Servants could have given their answers at once, and that war. the last thing Ministers wanted. Faced by an urgent proolem, their first demand was an excuse for d«.ay in tne hope that the public might ioiget, and iroin this cowardice' arose the whole system oi "Pa?scd on to you, please on a large scale, which goes either by the name of a Itoyal Commission or a Departmental Coml&ittee. . ... Of *hia 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 !Koyal Com'nifsion on Licensing, which was appointed in 180 G. That body sat for three vears, examined 250 witnesses, and presented a variety of reports of which nobody has ever taken the slightest notice since. The present Drink Commission only falls short of that record In one respect: it took two years instead of three. But it did its best. On its own showing it completed the hearing of evidence in January, 1931, and occupied a whole year in writing its report. But for psychologists thore is this amazijir problem, eo constantly recurring in pi»bhc lift): Why is it that a body of citizens, admirable and tolerant individuals in private fife, hardly ever meet together as a committee without discovering that the rest f * iia are not merely in need of more restrictions but actually pining ior them? That, indeed, is what no man can understniid. It is probably one of those deep, dark things in the human consciousness that reach back to immemorial days when the Druids sat round Stonehenge and meditated on tho fate of the man who objected to being a. human sacrifice. We ' should have had more pitv for the member* of this Commission, thus shown to bo the victims of a system, if they had had the courage to resist the promptings of thip ancient instinct. But they did not, and it is for the rest of us to take warning. The wisdom of the wise is constantly tngaged in undoing the folly of the good. It i« tiitie the vyise were up and doing'. If you aro a Land Holder you want to »e}J. ?r S[OW to buy, entrust year realisation to H. MATSON and CO. WHY FARMING DOES NOT FAY. .. The rats are in the dairy eating all tne The pigs are in the paddock' eating all the peas, The horae'e in the stable eating all the bay, , And Dad and Mum have bought a car and gone to town to-day. The fowls ore in the garden and the geese have flown away, The ducks are growing feathers and they U be oft some day.

And when Dftd and Mum come tack s*gain you're bound to hear them flay t "We arc to live in the city now, cauae farming does not pay. Those cunning little CJ>in!}W en . they lota their bit of ground; Where the Aussie's make a shilling, the Chinese waka a pound. With their cabbages and cauliflowers *nd pumpkins in galore, ' They send them out in cartloads and 'hep come back for more. Some people often wonder how the Chinese make a do; . But remember they have ham and egg# just " the same as you. / They love their bit of poultry and anything that's nice, A . Tljey like their drop of whisky and a b»sin full of rice. sfow w» go back to Dad a?"} #nd A® day they left for town, Twm then that they had plenty, now they haven't got a brown. The baker's got the motor-car, the butcher's cot the pup; . Tli» bailiff* got the furniture, 'twas hard to give is up. If you want to know the real value of your Property, or any property upon which you have a mortgage, entrust the saipp tp: . ' H. MATSON ami CO. MILLIONS GOING A-BEGGING.' In these hard-up times it seems incred!hlo that dividends amounting to hundreds of, tfcawnwds of BOTPds a 7Wr »-I»giiag. for want of claimant* the Sheffield • '"Weekly telegraph"). And yet. if you ttw© to examine the books alia DRiancflsheets of a thousand coippfinies, you would find scarcely one without its records . pf dividends unpaid—in some cases the total sub tiros anclaim*4 may lie only a fQYT SwaV: hot in Qthefs it exceeds 20. 80, or 40 thousand. . ■ To what hute proportlbns these owpeyjess difidpndl pan grow; is proved by the statement that the boofcs of the Bank of England atone- show dormant funds—many 01 them untouched for generations—amounting in the wrregate to nearly £8,000,000. The accounts whicib show these iiuclainipd riches number just under 1J..Q00, and the amounts range from a few pounds to ope colossal sum of £187,000 odd. And so it is everywherei and the irony of it all is Jhat not a of the people who are—thqugn they do not know it—entitled to these b®' lated and dormant capital Are at the moment in a state of absolute poverty. The causes responsible for these million! of ownerless dividends are eighteenth century, .lyheu speculation in shares was considered'quite a sin, it wes s common praotiee top men tP »PY e Pt ijpdor as turned names, and, in this way, in many casta, comfortable, fortunes were lost tq posterity. JSven In our own time this practice is not at all unusual. * In other cases people, incredible as it bh seem, will not take the trouble to ciajm their dividends) hut allow them to accumu late year after year. But the causes responsible for this st»t< of things are too many to give—such as lost of memory, aa investor dying -abroad among strangers, investments made secretly for dif Xwrent BHlDosbs, . sn4 sp on, The?? ftni { hundred others are the causes why railuoni of pounds never come to the hands of theii rightful ewn(arjC: r ; j -y;, - WHEAT, "OATS, OLOVER. Let us. handle your crop. Prompt Delivery. . H. MAtSON and CO., Grain Department, INTERNAL PARASITES. RIVERINA LAMBS AFFECTED. Reporting on , the conation °f sheep 11 the Rtveriua, a" New Sotjth -Wales Depart wiwurt Tetwwwy Qffisor.states:— "Lambs which were dropped in the autumi and winter are now weaners. .They were ill nourished owing to the failure of the ewei to milk well, and then became an easy pre; to worms. They have 1 qever reached A fttftg l of health which would render them' able ti assume the ascendancy over the constan menace of infestation. Then with the comitij of the summer they we<e further harassed ,bj the abnormal amount of grass seed, and t< some extent by ophtlialipla. Continual drench iug has been necessary to keep them alive Ewes which wero infested have responded ti treatment. In addition to drenching, the sheej require to be supplied: with an appropriate mineral lick. • "In the west, heavy; mortalities from in tenia! parasites in ~ sheep ..hare also bftei} 19 ported. "The need 'or supplying in-lamb ewes witl • mijjenl lick end feedipg them a* well a pe*«ibl» prlpf to lambing is obvious in orde that they may pioduee strong lambs ap have plenty of ipilk. '•The weskly inmb. lias no resistance t parasltio infestation, and succumbs quick]) There U need for early treatment to preven igw»» iafestotion."-