"No Encumbrances"

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 September 1915, Page 2

"No Encumbrances"

Hie "no encumbrances' advertisement. once more creeping inlu Lite local ami oiiier -\ ev Zealand newspapers ju connection with larni and btaUon employment lor married couples. There is too much reason to lear that the "no encumbrances" spirit is widely held in this connection apart lroni the advertisments. It is a wicked and pernicious spirit. Over and over ag'iin the "no encumbrance" advertisement has been pilloried till in some of thy colonies and States it is much nior? rarely seen than it used Ki be. Vet the spirit remains. it should be -egarded as an offence against the L'mpire. Tliere is no placo where children can lit in better than on a t'nrni or station, and the married peopie, "with children, provided they are given decent accommodation, are much 111010 likely to settle down to their work and give usehil work than those compulooi'ily sterilized by the "no encumbrau e ' mandate. The ivorld, alter this war, ■will be required Lo be replea re The colonies particularly require po illation. It i* tu the farm and station we should leok for the best human stock. It is to the farmer and the pastoralist that 'ive should look for its supply. And 1 <i«y by day we are met with "no encumbrance." it 'would not be at all out of the way it such advertisements •were made penal, except that so long ' as the spirit remained the mere (suppression of its outward manifestation ■would not appeal muchghfi.-lo' sjivould not avail much. What might be more effective would bo for the various farmers organizations to take tho matter up and completely repudiate it. on behalf of the farming community. A valuable reformative public opinion "would thus be created.— Petone Chronicle.