LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1949, 8 March 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr I’. Sherralt leaves' fox ton next weak for Iha Day of Plenty, where ha has purchased (iOb acres of land, and will in future enlace in farm in,"'. In Ilia list of shareholders in I ha recently registered Waikato b'laxmilling Co., Ltd., which appeared in a recant issue, the .Paxton Cordage and b'laxmilling Co., Lid., 1,110(1 shares, was omitted.

Miss Mary Collins lias been appointed Till assistant leaelier on Hie staff oC the local school, and will take it]) her duties as from Monday next.

At the Palmerston High School swimming sports yesterday, Master Hoy Bullard, a local hoy, won the fancy diving event. “Hoy’s” performance created a good deal of amusement, and he was loudly applauded.

The important aspect id' co.-l has been fully - considered in the matter of pupils studying under the Workers’ hkhtcalional Association. The lee payable on joining the class is from ‘is (id to 5s per annum, and with the outlay on text hooks required by the pupil, the total expense amounts to the small sum of approximately £l. The class has access to a library of suitable reference books, and tutors of high attainments are appointed. Mayor Chrystall, who presided at the public lecture delivered by Professor Hunter on Thursday night, was seized with the importance of the Workers’ Kducalional Association movement, and spoke enthusiastically on the possibilities of the institution. In his remarks he contended that the movement was worthy of great consideration, and would be an important means of bringing higher education to those unable to lake advantage of the secondary education institutions and universities.

A( llie inof.‘lin*4‘ addressed by Frotessor l.Luiilcr in llio Town llnll on Thursday night, the Mayor, in his remarks ;i))|n'oci;i(ivo of I lie visil 01. I Ik> Professor to Foxfon, said llnil lie wns very pleased lo hnve Ihe liononr of presiding nl flu* meeting, mid facetiously remarked that he believed it to he the liVsl occasion nil whieh Fox lon hnd been Invoured with n visil from n reel Jive universilv professor. They hnd hnd n visil Irmii the Prime .Minister mid olh(*r politico! notables, he continued. Frofessor linnler, in acknowledging the ■ compliment, snid that he only wished that the Mayor, while Ihe i’riine Minister was in .Foxton, had induced him to sanction a substantial grant for the furlherence of the W.F.A. movement.

‘‘There is no sight more sad than a person who drifts through life without a definite object, just the mere sport of chance; there is no objeet'in life more miserable than such a person/'’ said Dr, Weeks, ol Nelson, when addressing a large assemblage of pupils, ex-pupils, and friends of the Wanganui (lirls’ (.'allege at, the annual prize-giving- ceremony. Proceeding with his address, the speaker urged upon his hearers to have a delinile object in life, to have the highest purpose. That was the development of life itself in an all-round development of all that one could possibly he; that was higher than wealth, than learning, than fame, or even beauty, for all those passed away, and personality remained. He asked his hearers not to be content merely with a high purpose, but to go for the highest and best purpose, doing Ihe best lor the (Ireal Master.

As illusl rulin'*' I lie need of a wider knowledge :md deeper 1 bought among I lu* eonnuuniiy, Profes. Hunicr mentioned during’ the course of Ids address on Thursday night mi incident which happened at Wellington some little time ago. While attending a meeting of the AVellington Chamber of Commerce, he was surprised to hear a line of argument put forth by reputable business men. One member of (he Chamber, addle speaking of the necessity of patriotically supporting British industry, expressed the opinion that they should buy only British goods even if similar German manufactures were of better quality and lower priced. The Professor continued that, when an opportunity arose for him to address the Chamber, he stressed the fact that the principle to be followed was not that we should purchase British goods in preference to German despite the fact that the German goods were better and cheaper, but that the British should enedavoiir to produce a better article at a lower price than the Germans. Along those lines only true progress and patriotism lay. The Chamber expressed its gratitude to Professor Hunter for pointing out this policy.

Professor limiter, in his address on Thursday evening, stressed the importance of increased expenditure hy I lie (lovenmient on education. The Professor said that he had inspected and photographed accommodation for children at some schools which was not even eipial to (he accommodation given to racehorses. This position arose, (he Profe.-sor contended, because of (he public in If rest in horseracing on Iho one hand, and I lie lack of public iuIcrcsl m educational matters on the. oilier. An endeavour laid been made to gel Parliament to sanction the expenditure of ,t.T),()()(),()()() mi education, hut the politicians were not favourable because of the lack of public feeling in the mailer. If, said the speaker, itilere.o was sufficiently aroused among the public, I lie politicians would be found tumbling over lliemselves in order to vole the required amount for the fmiherence of education.

In speaking of the necessity of the belter education of the ma>sein order to provide that understanding of economic questions so essential to the best interests of a progressive community, Professor Hun - ter mentioned on Thursday evening that, had such knowledge been disseminated iis it should he, such a position as now old aim’d 111 rough the limitation of the war loans free of income tax could never have occurred, F-eonomies, like most other subjects, had a history, and it was only hy studying this history that the subject could he conceived in its (rue light. It was encumbent upon all persons who enjoyed the advantages of universal suit rage to study something of these questions in order to exercise that privilege in tut intelligent way. For instance, said the speaker, if the electors were’ called upon to exercise a vote on the question of Proportional Bepresentation, how many of them could do so with a full knowledge of ibe question.' Similarly, he continued, he had belore him the platform of the Lit hour Parly, one of the planks of which was the establishment of a- Slate Bank, A number of those present, no doubt, were sympathetic with the Labour platform, and believed in the establishment of a State Bank. “But,” said the Professor, “how are you going to do it? That is the question. Yon cannot bring a hank down from the clouds and set it up forthwith. Credit is a sensitive thing. I merely point those matters out as illustrating that they require some knowledge, and it is this knowledge that the W.E.A. is here to leach you.”