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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1542, 25 August 1905, Page 3

The Wairarapa Time? thus sums up the dear rent question :—“Undoubtedly rents are high now in New Zealand; they are part of . the price men have to pay for living in a progressive community, and for the elimination of element of competition amongst builders and saw - millers. The working man has killed the cutthroat competition which made for low I rentals and cheap tenements, and now has to reap as he has sown. | The Manawatu Standard is not plgased with the appointment of a lady dairy inspector, and goes on to remark : The ease with which writers I from abroad secure employment from the Government is remarkable, hut it is none the less irritating to the taxI payers, who are entitled to first consideration. The Government are too apt to rush after newcomers and offer them “billets” without ascertaining if any of our people are capable of doing the same work. Instead of pandering to such fads as the appointment of women dairy instructors, the Government should endeavor to make their staff of male instructors as complete a 3 possible. In allotting positions of this I kind to women the Government are re--1 sorting to the employment of cheap - I labor.