The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, January 26, 1915. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1352, 26 January 1915, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, January 26, 1915. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

“Do not let the workers suppose.” said Sir Robert Stout at Christchurch, “that they are in a class by themselves. We who came here in the early days were all workers, and those who think we did not have to do manual work are mistaken. When I came to the colony I got 25s a week, and I was able to live on ’t and also spend time in study. All the young Englishmen had to do the same thing. I remember meeting a young man a day after we landed and asked him if he had anything to do. He said : ‘Yes, I have got a contract for fencing 15 miles up country,’ I said, ‘Do you know anything about fencing?’ He said, ‘No, but I will learn.' That man died not long ago a wealthy man. and he won his position by hard work.” The royal road to success is bard work, and what our Chief Justice and numbers of sterling settlers have accomplished in this young country can also be accomplished by others of ordinary intelligence if they are prepared to work with some object in view. There is plenty of room at the top—but not for the shirker. The pilgrim fathers worked with a will to carve out homes for themselves ia this country. They were happy, healthy, and contented. Their offspring reaped the reward of their parents’ toil. In many cases the offspring lolled in the lap of luxury, and to-day they are wasters. The young fellows of to-day are too well off, and spend far too much time in pleasure and sport. They fritter away valuable time and opportunity, and drift down with the stream. They are not living the strenuous life which leads to well-earned promotion and prosperity. They should remember that the hope of reward sweetens labour. They should close their ears to the vapourings of the labour agitators, whose I dictum is a minimum of labour for a maximum ol pay. Such suggestions kill effort, individuality and initiative, and lead to carelessness and evil habits. livery young New Zealander should seek to attain something higher and j nobler in life than she street corner, billiard saloon, and racecourse. Aim high ; the gutter contains the refuse. j