Thoughts For The Times

Hokitika Guardian, 15 May 1920, Page 2

Thoughts For The Times

The Evils of Under-Production, Under-production helps to keep up prices, and never lowers anything but the purchasing power of wages. Nothing can be more harmful in the general public, interest, but in a special degree under-production is the enemy of the masses, whose pressing needs cannot be met until there is a big incibaso in the supply of all kinds of materials required for food production, tlie building and repairing of bouses, tlie manufacture of every kind of house requisite, clothing, boots and shoes, ornaments, and household necessities of every description.— English Labor Leader.

'Die time may come, when we shall isle not how many pounds a man has, nit how lie got them ,and what he is loing with them ?—Professor Chilton, Canterbury College. Cheap hydro-electric power in T asmiinia is reported to be attracting important industries. It is proposed to ] establish in Hobart a sewing machine | factory, to produce 20,000 machines per . annum, and to supply them to the Aus- , tralian and New Zealand markets. The , initial capital of the company is given at £50,000, and it is reported to have a ( strong backing of leading Australian financiers. A civic reception will be accorded General Bramwell Booth, of the Salvation Army, who will arrive in Welling-, ton from Sydney by the M°eraki on Monday, June 7th. The General will go to Christchurch that night, and, after i visiting Dunedin, will return to Wellington on Juno 15th. After remaining for a week, lie will leave for Auckland, and will sail from that port for for Vancouver, by the Niagara, three days later. An amendment to the Discharged Soldiers’ Settlement Act has been gazetted authorising the advances for building on rural sections not exceeding 21 acres up to a sum of £SOO, and in exceptional cases up to £750. A suggestion in regard to advances for this purpose was recently made to the Minister for Lands (Hon D. H. Guthrie) by the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association, and in a communication received by the j secretary of the association, the Minister draws attention to the newly-gazet-ted amendment. In the course of his remarks at the unveiling of the war. memorial at the Technical College, Wellington, on Tuesday, the Hon C. J. Parr-(Minister for Education) referring to the • childien s display at the reception to the Prince of Wales, expressed the opinion that the teachers has implanted the right idea in the children, as it was) evident that they had informed them of the advantages of living under a limited monarchy. It was undoubtedly the best form of Government in the world. It had its disadvantages, but it was the best in existence to-day.

The Prime Minister stated on .Wednesday that the Government had received a cablegram from the Director of Raw Materials, United Kingdom, dater May Btli, as follows“ Fourth series of wool sales closed on May 7th. Prices for all sorts have weakened during the auctions, • final rates comparing with those current at the close of the March series as follows: Merinos, 10 'to 15 per cent, cheaper; good 50’s to 56’s,' 10 per cent, cheaper; ordinary sorts, 15 per cent, cheaper; good'36’s to 46’s, 10 jser cent, cheaper; ordinary sorts, 1 per cent, cheaper; scoured and slipe crossbreds, fine, 10’per cent., and coarse 15 per cent, cheaper.

In addition to the caterer; who lost large quantities of silver, which was taken by souvenir-hunters, and the Borough Council, which will have to pay for the deficiency, there are people in. Wanganui who will have a somewhat pained remembrance of the “Young People’s” supper tendered on the occasion of the visit of the Prince of Wales. In the scramble that followed, when, the assembly with one accord decided to begin the supper, a few dresses and evening suits were damaged by care-lessly-handled cups of tea and coffee being passed around. One youth held a bottle of aerated water at arm’s length and deftly flicked off the capsule with a knife, the result being a spurting cascade on to the back of a lady ,in evening dress. There was considerable crushing .at the ladies’ dressing-room, and in several instances flimsy dross material proved unequal to strains suddenly placed upon it. During the evening several ladies lost articles of jeweller}. It is not thought likely that any lightfingered guest was at work, the reason for the losses probably being the jostling that occasionally went on.

A strange story was told- at Auckland on Monday by one of the steerage passengers on the s.s. Mnheno, who was handed over to the police on the ship ,s arrival there from Sydney. He had a ticket, but- he had no passport. The man, who gave his name as John Alosley was, says an Auckland paper, handed over with the history of having been twice turned off - tlie ship at Sydney because he lacked a permit, hut eventually he managed to slip aboard. When taken into custody fay Detective Gourley, Alosley stated that his real name was Arthur Arson, and that lie came from Ualclutha.. That, however, was about the only sensible statement that could be got from him, for he went on to “talk silly” as if lie were mentally unbalanced. Asked where he had been born, he replied that he hadn’t been born at all, hut- had started life iri a I cheese as a mite, and had been changed into his present form by special feeding and work that has been forced on him. It is quite probable that the shipping company will be called on to give the man a passage back to Sidney.

Grocers, listen!!! “In every sense of service that thou renderest thou thyself are being ’served” (Browning). Therefore, push “KEEP SMILING” Boot Polish at 8d per tin. V Order by name “NAZOL.” Refuse substitutes. Nothing like “NAZOL” for routing a cold quickly.