Thoughts For The Times.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 December 1919, Page 2

Thoughts For The Times.

We are all apt to take (dip Lipo of Least ResistanceWJe not fake the Trouble to Think for Uurselvps, So we allow our Lives to bp hindered and hampered by Mon who impose their Opinions upon us. These men have often not had our Experience; and they too frequently appeal to the Worst Side of IHtiman Nature rather than .the Best.

An indignant discussion was aroused at the meeting of the Auckland Returned Soldiers’ Association Executive by receipt of a letter from an Auckland business man, enclosing an ink-eraser, which, be stated, bad been sold in Auckland during the last three weeks. The enclosed eraser was of a green rubber sind clearly stamped with the name of the maker on one side, and “Made in Germany” on the other. It was undated. -Mr T. Long stated that by an oversight the matter had not been brought before the Prime Minister. “We should give the greatest publicity to this matter,” he said, “to show that 'German stuff is being sold in Auckland by so-called patriotic firms.” Mr V. Atkinson suggested that the eraser had been imported before the war, and that the vendor had been ashamed to offer it for sale during the fighting period. It might possibly have been old stock which the shopkeeper was trying to get rid of. “It doesn’t matter if it were,” replied Mr E. W. Inder. The chairman, :Mr G. Eliott, moved that full publicity be given to the incident and also to the name of the vendor as a protest gainst ti e sale of German goods. This was carried unanimously.

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