NO APOLOGY.

Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 46, 24 April 1930, Page 5

NO APOLOGY.

(By NJ.P.)

One of the Ministers of the Crown is putting tip the plea for more business men in. Parliament and quite a large heap of public opinion will be with him,; in that respect.

It is only reasonable to assume that men who have made a success ef their own business should be able to conduct the off airs of the country on more practical businesslike lines than can be expected from .a collection of lawyers and political adventurers.

The lawyer element no doubt does excellent work in framing all kinds of Acts of Parliament, whilst their fellow legal practitioners, outside Parliament, make a nice fat, easy living, in arguing the point over the multitude of enactments, at the expense of quarrelling clients.

There is no doubt but that, as a community we are well and truly governed, what with the hundreds of Parliamentary enactments, shoals of Government regulations, and a mass of local by-laws, just to top off, so to speak.. There are different types, of business men too, it must be remembered.

We have a few alert courageous men of affairs, who, from a standing start with no family capital to help them, have built up large, important industries, con-, ducted upon really efficient lines, meeting all forms of competition, whilst paying excellent wages to employees, anoi ft, comfortable dividend to. the proprietor.

Far more numerous, however, are the men, whose only claim to business enterprise, and ability, lie's in the fact that their fathers had built-up a fine 'business before them, and the present proprietor had the rare brain to be born his father's son, with just enough sense not to upset the applecart by interfering with the. managers, who have been associated with the old man in building.up the business. '•■-..

Not many, even the most cantankerous of individuals, would be prepared to argue the point with the Life Saving Society, when that body states that all custodians of the swimming baths and bathing resorts, should be expert swimmers, skilled;in life saving.

Possibly the thoughtful individuals who kindly makes a practice of • regularly stealing life belts from the Petone Wharf, has * hopes of using them when his-set"of motor tyres are worn out.

When , someone, rightly, forms the notion of taking' around the hat, to provide facilities whereby- young medical students can be enabled to learn how to save the lives of the mothers of the/nation, it does seem queer to disguise the object with, such a fearful ..title "as an Obstetrical Endowment Fund.

,The : taxpayers all agree that, next to not selling them at all, it is, no doubt, quit© a good thing to sell debentures at a discount.

There is no reason, for any marked surprise if building operations —in the Valley slacken off somewhat, as the amazing thing is that ithe building boom, has been, for so long sustained.

The idea to raise money for the purpose of a children's play area is a really sound one, and we hope that the. pjaying devices to be provided, are as sound as the idea, as otherwise, they won't last too long.

We can quite understand the point of view of those gentlemen who consider that, in a town such as Petone, where vacant building sections are as scarce as free beers, it is a real waste of land, and a hardship upon the owners, if some of the absurdly deep remaining sections cannot be subdivided^ by means of a right of way, into several homestead sites.

On the other hand some people fear the rights of way leading over footpaths, with houses placed one behind the other.