At the Hospital Board Conference at Hawera, Air Murdoch Fraser (chairman of the Taranaki Hospital Board) said that the average age of the inmates of the Old People's Hume at New Plymouth was 83, and they had men up to 03. “The older they get, the stronger they get,” exclaimed the speaker. He also remarked that they were not all angels, or strong advocates- of prohibition —at any rate, when they came down town.
One half of the world doesn’t know how the other half lives. The saying is as (rue to-day as it was when it was first written. A debtor at Hie Wanganui Magistrate’* Court (says an exchange) staled that in Ihvee months he had earned £7, and had lived upon it. Ho had no money in the bank except 2s 3d. Ho had no dependants, and obtained food, and shelter, and bedding by taking care of a house for an absentee owner, and cooking his own meals. Tlic way to cure Bolshevism is to increase the opportunities of-indus-trious people, and to make use and productiveness the test of landholding. The way to cm-c Bolshevism is to insist that the lives of the miners and the ship-workers shall be tolerable by making it a sine qua non that proper homes and quarters shall be provided for them. The way to cure Bolshevism is for the farmers to join with the townspeople to encourage co-oper-ative effort, and to resist cverv agency of exploitation, and every injustice to the working classes,— Palmerston Times.
At a time when the increasing number of Hindoos in Auckland is giving rise to a great deal of discussion, it is interesting (says (lie N.Z. Herald) to know that a number of these residents arc just as eager to get away from this country as others are to prevent their entry. One of the officials of a well-known agency said that his firm had been trying for several months past to secure passages for half-a-dozen Hindoos who wished to return to India, but without success. “They are regular Ishmaelites,” he said. “Nobody seems to want them. They come in day after day to inquire if we can yet send them home, and one cannot help feeling sorry for them. None of the shipping companies will take them if they can got other passengers. Meantime, they are compelled to wait here, knowing themselves unwanted, but unable to get back to their native land.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1995, 26 June 1919, Page 4
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