PUBLIC OPINION.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 October 1925, Page 3

PUBLIC OPINION.

A CONTRAST'. ■‘tine day, during t lie dinner hour. I saw a vivid cunt ra-l. groups of factory workers waiting for the hooter to sound, mingling with building workers who were engaged in an extension <d the factory. Each seemed to belong to a dilferent lace the bricklayers and Ld'oiirers were l inly men (aimed By Ihe wind and -on: I lie weedy laeiorv win ker- had yellow i-ti-grey lac e- under the loverutg of grime and machine oil. their -boulders dropped with much bending over tln-ir maetiilie.-, and tin* pallor of dose confinement was in their cheeks. In si/.e and general physique there wa- no c.uiipari.-on between these tiwo groups ol workers." -Mr R. M. l-’ox. in I In- ■’ Brut herliood World." ■ UNCLE SAM."

‘•'flu* Commonwealth Government ol Australia, one of mu- most prosperous Colonics, with greater wealth per bead of the inhabitants than that ol the United States, has been officially coldshouldered in London and told that it was not convenient lor il to raise llic necessary fmar.ee here. And when that Government asked it there was auv objection to going to New \ ork it was told No. What happens now is that the American bankers will issue the loan, and will unload some of the scrip on London. £5,(100.001) only is being raised in London. Il wil'l be gilt-edged stock and a trustee security.'' aml will be taken up with alacrity in this country. So wo won't help deflation. But America will get most of the benefit. and American factories will eventually gd the orders for tin. goods the loan will represent. -Worst of all. the linoprial tie is weakened. This could never have been dime without the connivance of the Colonial Ofliee and the British Government. Where aiv the bat tie-cry s of closer union with the Empire. ot developing our own estate, and all the rest of it. By this one act ol the Treasure, on conjunction with the Bank of England, a heavy blow lias boon struck at the Imperial connection." Lieutenant-Commander the Hon. John Konwnrlhy. Ml’.