NOTES OF THE DAY
Mr. C. W. Jones, President of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, dealt very well yesterday with the current topics of interest to business men, and his references to the financial position as it exists, arid what may be expected when the war is over, were decidedly interesting. It is quite true,' as Mr. Jones stated, that capital is at present going up in smoke at a rapid rate, and it is equally true that economy is a commendable virtue. But Mr. Jones goes further, and predicts a period of stagnation after the war is over. Opinions on such a question must necessarily differ greatly, but there does not seem to be sufficient warrant for anticipating any very . serious stagnation' so far as New Zealand is concerned. Hard work and frugal living may be the direct consequences of the war, but New Zealand is less likely to suffer than most of her neighbours, since her chief productions are of a character to be always in demand in extended markets.
Wellington will be under a, debt of gratitude to the Minister of Justice if he should succeed in carrying through his scheme to complete the road along the harbour edge right round the Miramar Peninsula. For years past it has been a grievance with the peoplo of Wellington that they were debarred from using the road where it passed through the military reserve. Even as it is now, this road makes one of the pjeasantest drives about the City, but if comgleted on the lines indicated by Mr. 'erdman it would be, as he suggests, one of the finest in New Zealand. Employment could be found on it for the prisoners confined at Point Halswell, and the cost in crasequence would be comparatively small. It is to be hoped that the Minister will be able to give effect to his views.
A general election in Canada will be rather a distracting business- if it happens during the war, for the Canadian soldier in Europe has been given a special franchise, and scrutineers will be _ dispatched to the front to supervise the balloting. A day in a polling booth at the front might possibly provide some exciting diversions for the scrutineers, one of whom might conceivably be captured with a wad of votes in his pockets, unwittingly inflicting an agony of suspense upon some unfortunate candidate on the other side of tho Atlantic. As a matter of fact, this soldier voting business is overdone. The Empire's soldiers at the front have other and bigger things to occupy their minds than tho party wrangles of politicians seeking their votes.
"The most bare-faoed robbery on the part of the City Council that has ever taken place—to give a portion of the Town Belt to the Kelburn Bowling Club and allow it to erect such a puilding thereon," says Mb. J. E. Jenkinson, a candidate for the City Council. One finds it somewhat difficult to picture certain mildlooking, easy-going members of the present Council in the role of robbers and highwaymen. Mr. Jenkinson may be expected to make matters interesting at Council meetings should citizens favour him with their confidence.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2441, 21 April 1915, Page 6
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