PRESS OPINION.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 November 1924, Page 3

PRESS OPINION.

I n puiMiancc of a i csnhlt ion passed, amidst some dissent, at the recent ccnl'ercin-e of the hospital boards of New Zealand the Health Department is being asked to take into consideration the advisability of securing an annual medical examination of each person in tin* Dominion. Though ii the popular mind the idea may I c regard, *d as too Utopian for the pressent day and the Department is not likely to catch up the idea immediateIv in its compulsory sense, the resolution docs in fact allirm a principal that has been rapidly gaining ground all over the world, and cut that—in the voluntary sense, at all cv**nis— the State would lit* well advised to encourage.— ** Marlborough Fxprcss.”

It is possible that Mr Coates dreams diva ms ol a better order that- will never be realised, but unless some portico of bis dream comes tine. and ||,ere can be a di,ni1,,,1 ion in this bew i|iii< ■ II -I of mil horit io:. voided with borrowing and sp-euding powers, it will be i,ill of the question to look for the most c< onomir use id public money. His immediato proposal, until tile time arrives for a Rural Government Board, is the creulfug of some organisation for investigating, the loan proposals of local authorities before tin* latter would be permitted to submit the issue In the ratepayers. This

would certainly give the ratepayers •‘an assurance which they do not have now," though it is impossible to say how the plan would work until the details have been announced. AA’hat enn la* said is that a cheek of some kind is imperative.- *• Sun.”

ENT IRISH 500 YEARS HENCE. LONDON. Sept. 20. British dialects wilf In* see modi.Ted within the next 500 years, according to Mr Daniel Jones. professdV of phonetics at London Universilv, that Scotsmen will tall; like ••Englishmen" while the general tnngile of highly cultured neonla* -will I > "super-Unikiiey, with a lit lie Scutch in-i-dll.” ‘•What we talk new was ‘Co.kncv’ t , Shakespeare. ’’ Mr .loir s tohl a repo* ler veslenlav. and ln* added; The interesting thing D that He* |ai,r„;,"i> sunken ,u Southern I* if ’.land is still I,ceutiling more Cockney. I agree with the opinion that a strong_local accent is a bar lo advancement in a profession or business. A I.a mash ire to:ir'*cr I know bail to give up a post in the smith of England M'd return to i ;, s lii*-,* on accemt of bis accent. Tin* p,mils (/ another lonelier have to get at his moaning. T expert Rondo,, children could understand the langur*.U. of Birmingham children. but childi-m, of London and Edinburgh would la* mutually lininlolligahb* il Ihcv conversed in their local dialects. AYitillii S V I years tin* « ’-■eli.- ,'a”triiage will have nearlv dismmeareo ’flu* native Irish language (Er-e) will ~!«•> have vanished. because so few „eo,,h* talk it. Onlv AA'elsh. which lias no siou of dving out. will survive. AYoincu nre best at imitating accents, because they have better ears. than men. . Tlio lio.-t oxnmplo of v.luii T iJn.nK our future tongue will le is to take the word “cart” and pronounce it “car-r-r-t.”