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Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1923, Page 2

At aoros to the attitude of the striking doctors at Home, an English paper of Liberal leanings made the foilowinw sensible remarks which are worth conning over by all who believe in sanity of aetiem where the public weal is involved. .Says the pager:--Industry has a vary direct intciesL in the discussion now taking place between the Doctors and tlie .Ministry of Health and the Friendly Societies lor employers of luhmn pay the largest proportion of the insurance bill. Nobody wants the doetors to be imdo.rpaid. Their .service must be of the best and the remuneration must be a | roper one. [Jut all those, and they iie lude the majority of our readers, who bold definite views on the use of the .Alike weapon, must be careful to see that they display no less enthusiasm in siippoit of those views because the strikeis happen to be doctors instead of dockers. The strike weapon is either good or bad. and we must either accept it as part oi our economic machinery, or icplaee ii with th: instruments of conciliation such as the Whitley Repo i. Tlm-e who stand for conciliation and arbil ration v. ih led just as stumgly about the striking proclivities of ti e doctors as they do about anv other strikes. A.ter all. it iequires more coinage on the part ol i labourer who lias only bis week’s wages between himself and starvation to down tools than is called for Loin a professional man who is presumed to have at file back of him at least some otliei resources. Just as Mussolini will l.c used in the future and lightly used, Up justify any sort of revolution that anybody i houses to promote, so the doctors will be quoted in justification of ihe industrial .strike. It is, therefore, !• the highest jmportaiiee tiiat those, • no hdieve in a letter order of things should make it abundantly (leaf that they are not pie.aired to condone the si tike, even though the strikers happen to wear frock coats and tide in motor cats.

Tut-: Exhibition i- now well into ii.s stride. It fame has gone abroad, and visitors are still answering the vail ol the Coast. The liTidiiy rush is being maintained. It, will 1.0 pillowed by twho are routing lure on business bent, or purely for levieatiou pur

;t>s.;-. .Hmitary and February n,|o popular monbits for that traffic, and it.-, volume is sure to be increased this sea ■•■ in in view oi the Exhibition. \ isits el business men Item Wellington and Nelson air to be made, while a- parly of farmers i> coming from Rnigiora County. 1 .ater a business party will lx' sent from Christchurch. In connection with those visiting parties, it is pmpose i to arrange special visits to the danyiug and pastoral districts both in tins' in ighhoi hood, as also in Southern M estiaitd. There is wisdom in this lor iho average visitor does not realise the potentialities of ill.- (list i iet in regard to land development.. An ox-Coaster who was here last week from Taranaki saw IN land of his birth place in a new light. His experience in the Notch Island had opened ins eyes to the possi bilities of West,land with its cheap land, and he went away singing the praises of the district, and intends to boom Westland in the north.

Tue Westland Lacing Club for the first time since changing its racing date in Christmas week was lavored ■a it Ii two tine days. The meeting passed off very successfully. Events showed that the Club was fortunate in the selection of its dates, as the two days selected were sandwiched in hot ween two wet periods. The meeting drew an extra attendance this year on account of the Exhibition, and the gate receipts weie easily a record lor the Club. The attendance particularly on the opening day was very large, but there was no congestion, the late improvements assisting to relieve any pressure at the points whore the public* njisllv congregate. The meeting was conducted very satisfactorily. Ihe racing was well up to time, the schedule tiling closely observed throughout the meeting. Altogether the meeting was a vcrv pleasant record for the Club.