MIDDLEMEN'S PROFITS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1788, 28 June 1913, Page 14

MIDDLEMEN'S PROFITS.

A NG ATI AW A VIEW. "I'ater" writes from Ngatiawe, near Waikanne, as follows:— 1. I_ think that more should be (lone m training girls in domestic life, such as cooking, darning, etc., and less time spent in gardening. The latter also refers to boys, as when they leave school* their parents give them enough lessons tin it. Farmers (or some, I should say) are iust' as eager to see their boys and girls as well educated as their town cousins, only they have not the opportunities arid have not . the money to send them to college. 2. Certainly not. I think it is time the Government started State markets and charged a fair commission on nil form produce and let the consumer have the benefit as well as the producer. It is a well-known fact that the middleman mnkes the profit. 3. The railways should protect the goods for farmers as they cannot always be at the station on the arrival and departure of trains, seeing that somo havo to drive seven or eight miles to the station, and when they get thero they find that some of the things are lost or broken. 1 4. No. The postal service is rotten, and so is the post oflice. It is closed from 1 p.m. on Saturday till 9 a.m. on Monday, although there are two sawmills, as well 'as furiners in the district. Should an accident happen or sickness take place wo would bo compelled to go anything from 9 miles down to the nearest telephone offico. 1 think some arrangements should, and could, be made with a settler to have a telephone crected in this place in case of emergency. 5. Don't take any interest in shows. 6. The worfc of the Agricultural Department is of direct benefit. T. The farmers here are not satisfactorily organised, and I don't think they over will bi-. 8. As a renter of a farm I am satisfied. 11. In my opinion do away with the I gardening for girls at the schools, as tho 1 majority of them get enough, out-door exercise going and coming from school, and in place teach them music, for what is nicer after work is done than to hear somo nice music being played; or when they have passed the Sixth Standard (Dividing they are not above the age limit) glvo them sumo lessons where they could go on studying.