NEWS AND NOTES

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1947, 4 March 1919, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

A Carterton scholar, after a recent examination, wrote to his mother: —“Dear Mother. —I didn’t win a scholarship, but yon will be pleased to know I Avon the heavy-weight boxing match!” The mother is still wondering how pleased she ought to be. —News.

Says the Carterton News: 10J, and still hale and hourly. Such is the condition of Mr Robert Rowe, of Gladstone. Mr Rowe’s mental faculties are as keen as they ever were, his eyesight as good as that of a young man, he is still actively engaged in running his farm, and enjoys the best of health.

Frederick Gustav Bremer, a farmer living near Patea, was, with his son Harvey and Mr and Mrs Ayres, in a car coming to Hawera on Wednesday, and when near the town either the tyre.burst or the axle broke. The car overturned, and Bremer senior sustained serious in> juries, being pinned beneath the car. He was removed to Nurse White’s hospital, where he succumbed during the afternoon. The oilier occupants of the car escaped with a shaking. Deceased was 5(3 years of age.

Canterbury contained -1,000 square miles more than Belgium, declared Mr J. A. Froslick to the Parliamentary Industries Committee at Christchurch, and yet Belgium contained seven and a half million inhabitants. Why should we, he asked, hesitate to push our country ahead because we had not the employment to provide? After the war there would be a great exodus from Britain.

The preamble of the New Covenant of all the allied nations, upon which is based the Buies of Peace: —To promote international co-op-eration and secure international peace and security by acceptance of obligations not to resort to war, by prescription of open, just, and honourable relations between nations, by (he firm establishment of understandings of international law as the actual rule of conduct among Governments, and by the maintenance of a just and scrupulous respect of all treaty obligations in the dealings of organised nations with one another.

In his address to the Methodist Conference at Christchurch, the retiring president (the Rev. C. E. Bellhouse) said; —“The chief peril which now confronts ns is that of industrial upheaval.' The world of industry is everywhere in ferment. Ominous forces are abroad, the shaeklin’g influence of war conditions is now removed, and Labour everywhere is demanding its rights, and Labour must have its rights. 'Men everywhere must be given the opportunity of living decent, selfrespecting lives; they must he enabled to live lives free from financial shadow, lives not for ever haunted by foreboding and the fear of Capital everywhere. We must recognise this, and must he prepared to give Labour its just rights; hut while Labour has its rights, it must not forget it has its responsibilities. Labour has no right to precipilale social convulsion in order to gain its end, just as Capital has no right to give occasion for Labour precipitating a social convulsion. Strike is the weapon of barbarism, and should be absent in these civilised days.’’