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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 2, 27 September 1921, Page 4

SIGHT-TESTING ROOMS. TpATRONS will benefit by my many years of study and experience. Thia Is essentia! for accurate results. Sir William Crookes, Kryptok, and Tone Lenses.i J. M.- SAVIDGE. Opt.D., Ophthalmic Optician, 68 Iximbton Quay (next Chemist's). Phone 3116. Opp. Government Buildings.

The gradual breaking-down of the caste system and the uplifting of the outcast class was described by the Rev. A. AV. Brough, in Auckland, as one of the greatest results that Christian teaching had achieved in India. "A wonderful change has been wrought since the mission first took up work in Erode, a districts in Southern India," said Mr. Brough. "Under the Hindu system there are four castes, and below that is tho great outcast or pariah class, for the most part in bondage to the caste people. It is these people we try to help. They lead wretched lives, particularly tlfo women, for every girl of 12 or 13 has to bo married. Ono of the great efforts of tho mission has been to raise these poor outcasts from their bondage. Hitherto they have had, for tho most part, no property rights whatever, but under the Chelmsford-Montagu system, which recently came into operation, tho Government is making |an effort to settle as many as possible on the land. These peoplo are good workers ami wherever they have been able to get land, have worked it. successfully. What this means to the pariah may be understood that hitherto he has boon held so unclean as to be untouchable; ho must nover even come near to a person of caste. When he becomes Christian, all that is changed. He is ascepted by caste people as a Christian, and becomes touchable. Ho gains selfrespect, nnd loses his slavish manner. Tn tho younger generation of pariah extraction, there are now many doctors and lawyers; for tho first time in tho history of India, a man of pariah parentage is occupying a seat in tho Madras Legislative Assembly, while other youn£ mon of the same class are holding positions on the governing boards of the district." There will bo six miles of corridors in tho new offices of the London County Council at Westminster. A total of 6000 tons cf briar-roots for the ’ manufacture of pipes is exported from Corsica every year. Copyists I —There are always crowds of these commercial pirates waiting to steal other men’s inventions. Take no risks—patent your idea at once. For advice concerning patents consult Henry Hughes, Ltd-, Patent Attorneys, 157 Featherston Street, Wellington.—Advt