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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5157, 27 July 1927, Page 2

At tlie annual meeting of tlie Te Aroha Building Society the chairman, Air E. A. Bruce, was successful, and holding 10 shares is entitled to £lOOO. That a woman should make as much as £l2O a day from a houp-1- 1 stall, as has just been confessed in the Courts (says the Glasgow Herald), suggest that it might be a good plan, as it would certainly be a cheap one, to buy all unemployed a houpla outfit, or something of the same profitable kind, and so by one stroke solve “the master problem of the age.” Of course an objection would be that houp-la tends to foster the gambling spirit, and that we snould merely be substituting one master problem for another. The man in the fable, you will remember, objected to living because it was worse than being dead. But really it is time we were all overhauling our stock of wisdom. When a boy leaves school he goes for years idle, and then we waste no end of money and wit in trying to get him to work. It is the same with gambling. No sooner can a child toddle than it gets its Saturday copper to buy a “lucky bag” or a “penny dip,” and then we go into hysterics when in after years it takes a shilling dip or a ten shilling one I The Government has outlined its health ■ programme for the year. There is to be, apart from, ordinary supervisory services, special investigation into the causes; of malnutrition and disease in school children ; attention to children of pre-school age; inquiry into the cause and treatment of the all-to-prevalent complaint of goitre ; further investigation of tuberculosis ; and perhaps most important of all, research work in connection with cancer. With its already inadequate health vote reduced by £25,000 how can the Government hope to obtain the best results in these matters ? Doubtless t.hwe can be a great deal of saving in adminis.tration (says the Christchurch Sun), but the Health Department should be the last to suffer and any economics in that direction should be applied with the greater! caution.