THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1923. NURSING THE BABY.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4532, 26 February 1923, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1923. NURSING THE BABY.

Jt was suggested at the Paeroa Chamber bf Commerce meeting that even a bombshell would not shift many of the should-be enterprising men of the town. Many unkind things were said, and it was even suggested that a press representative should republish an article written some time ago by a writer who apparently arrived in the town “wet” and found it “dry.” Though many of the remarks were made in a jocular way, the members of the Chamber were really uttering the most serious warning to the business men of Paeroa. The meeting was the first this year, and six mon were present, including the. secretary. Do the business men of Paeroa imagine that outsiders are going to “nurse their baby ?” Between meetings most of the business me.n raise a feeble cry about progress, but when the time comes for action they are absent. Paeroa cannot go ahead unless the men in 'it sl ow more “push-” The town will always be just what the people make of it—ho more and no less. If a business man cannot attend a meeting once in three months to advance the welfare of the town it is about time he stopped at home and confined his attention to the household washing-up. The majority of the “business’’ men of Paeroa, judging by the utter absence of practical assistance given to matters pf great import, do not appear, to recognise the fact' that the man who wishes to be helped must help himself. Hot air will not make Paeroa grow. If the town is to progress the business men must be enterprising, energetic, and enthusiastic.

The London County Council has decided that henceforth all women teachers must resign on marriage unless specially exempted. It was held that women could not successfully teach and run homes simultaneously. This action on the part of the L.C.C. should generally be welcomed. It could well be copied in the Dominion, where many women whose husbands are in good positions are holding “jobs" that should be open to those who have someone to support. There is another aspect of the position that might well be considered. At the present time the majority of female employees take employment with the intention of merely providing for themselves until they get married, but, living solely for to day, they overlook the fact that their positions in tpter life will always be insecure because of the girls who think as they themselves thought before marriage. Every man who has a normal amount of cpmmonsense should recognise that the opposite sex are his equal, if not his superior, morally and mentally. At the same time, it. should be obvious that women could find avenues of useful employment particularly suited to them without prejudicing the positions held by those who have families tp support. ' The London County Council has acted wisely. There will, of course, be some who think otherwise. And while they do, the army of over 1,00'0,000 unemployed in England will go workless.