MEDITATIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 October 1928, Page 1

MEDITATIONS

METEOROLOGICAL AND POLITICAL (From Weekly Press.) THE BEASTLY WINDS STILL BLOW !

Of course, the Labour man knows a remedy for all this. The weather will never be decent, in his opinion, till we have taken off Coates and put on Holland (it sounds like an advocacy of light-weight clothing). Once get Labour into power, and rain will come where and when it should come, strikes will disappear, bankruptcies will Cease, the country from Maria Van Diemen to the ultimate point of Stewart Island will fairly howl with prosperity, prices will go down, spirits will go up, everybody (even on the West Coast) will have his house painted, and New Zealand will blossom like the rose, and flourish like the green bay-tree. Just so—and the No-License a'arty prophesy exactly the same sort of thing when the day comes for New Zealand to go dry. And the United Party are shouting optimists as to the future of the country once the old Liberal Party resplendent in its coat of new paint, is set up again. Everybody has his nostrum for an ailing land—only put us into power*, and see how things will go ! And when the election is over, and the country, after its hectic spell of politics, settles down again, many electors 'will wait with critical and expectant eye for election promises to be fulfilled. You might as well expect the keeping of lovers’ oaths. About twcny-live per cent will germinate, as it were: the remaining seventy-live arc put aside into the storehouse of things that arc kept steadily in view.- in the meantimes, politicians or no politicians, the nor’-wester (had luck to it l) still blows.—X.