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Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1925, Page 2

The suggestion that the West Coast will not he represented at the exhibition at Dunedin with a distinctive court is to be regretted. 1 here appears to he a lack of cohesion among the local bodies concerned along the Coast, At the beginning oi the year there was evidence that the co-opera-tion necessary would he forthcoming, and that the promise to the Dunedin delegate who visited the Coast earlier, would he carried out. But its time went oil interest cooled, and just now is at zero. The situation is said to he governed by the position taken tip liv the (irey County Council. That hotly has decided already not, to co-ope-rate. but another appeal is to be made. If unsuccessful. all support front the dreymouth district, will lx- withdrawn. That would leave only the Westland County Council and the Hokitika Borough Council to co-operate. It becomes a matter for the local bodies to consider the position and decide whether they should hear the burden for the whole Coast, lo ventilate the matter, the subject is to he broached at the monthly nice ling ol the Westland Progress Tongue on Monday. At the same time it. will be deplorable if the Coast docs not appear in the list of exhibitors. The exhibition is going to be the greatest held in New Zealand. if mil in the Southern Hemisphere. Dunedin citizens are not lining the tiling by halves. A groat opportunity to advertise the district, and he in the New Zealand picture will be missed, il Westland is not to the lore in the display. W non wo recall what was done at the time of our local exhibition, we can hut marvel that there is not the same spirit and enterprise displayed. In addition to what the local bodies might do. help should be contributed by private business people and local exhibitors. Probably £ob'() would suffiie to secure a display not unworthy the district. and lie -ome enticement, to tin* stream of \ i*itors crowding into New Zcalud to pas-, through the Coast oil (licit trip. There tire such outstanding tourist attractions on the Coast. Unit it will ho a mistake always to be deplored if Westland is not litting|y represented at the Sotiili Setts I'.xltiliitioit at Dunedin opening next November.

Tut: rise in rubber is one ol the leal ores of the world’s marketing. Tin

position scents to have grown acute of late, and one explanation is that il is Britain’s way ol helping to pay oil the debt to the I’uiteil States. I'nat

i- rather a fa i-1 etched idea, and it is surely more imaginary than real. However. prices have tended upward- constantly for some time. The share market has been alfeetcd similarly. Ae-

cording to a late New York journal in the London market rubber stocks have been following more or less closely the upward trend in commodity prices, and m the Ended States one or rwo leading companies whoii report abundant supplies purchased at lower [trices have had the satisfaction ol seeing their shares assume a new firmness. Dearer rubber means higher priced (ires and like commodities, but at that there is little probability of a runaway market with a subsequent unfavorable reaction. The advance in rubber involves no sinister corner or control, as lias been too hastily assumed. When we stop to consider that within a decade, almost, the production of rubber lias bad to be speeded tut to take care of the demand necessitated by the manufacture ol from seventeen lo t wen tv million automobiles—not to

mention dozens of other increasing wants, many of them unknown before an explanation of the rise in rubber is not (liflienlt.

W'nr.N the Governor-General of Australia was speaking the other day in Sydney at an inaugural meeting to undertake the raising of £25,000 to building and equip a Tneli 11. head-quar-ters, he said: “I hope to-day we are laying the foundation-stone of the most wonderful war memorial that we could have,’’ Lord Forster continued, “for in its inmost shrine there "ill burn the clear and steady light of a noble ideal, the ideal of a service to Clod and mankind in the home of those elder brethren who gave their lives in the greatest war. We can provide the golden key that will unlock the house of happiness; let us see that we do so. We older people will provide the ship and the younger men the crew. Tad us face this adventure together.” These remark's appear to he specially applicable to the local movement about to he inaugurated to build an All Saints Memorial Church to commemorate the sacrifice of the fallen in the (Ire,at War -or perhaps we should say, the greatest of wars. It is a noble form of memorial, standing as it. will for all time to mark the occasion when we were saved from the yoke of a ravaging enemy. As one speaker lias pm it : “If it were not for the dead, you would he a great lonely continent. bowed down beneath a huge indemnity. the British Empire gone, the Pacifie a (lerntan ocean.” Such a dis-

aster was in .sight at various stages, and for our escape we should he grateful ever. One wav of expressing our gratitude and reminding those who come alter, is to rear and fend to worthy memorials useful in the way of making hotter citizens and keeping alive the true spirit of service in the nation. The All Saints’ Memorial Church should he a wonderful instrument to that end.