TO MISS LILY HYNDMAN.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 27, 8 September 1911, Page 17

TO MISS LILY HYNDMAN.

Dear Sir, —Permit mc, through the columns of your valuable paper, # to thank Miss Hyndman for her kind congratulations to mc. Dear Comrade Lily,—-Permit mo in

my humblest way to thank you for your kind congratulations to mc re my essay. Miss H. Holmes, as you are aware, won. the prize for the best essay on the Union Jack, and no doubt sh'o deserved it. In the judge's narrowmindedness, he thought it a splendidessay: every word of it the truth. In. her essay, Miss Holmes states that there is freedom, justice, peace ajid equity for all and also that the black and white, the civilised and uncivilised, live in perfect harmony under the dear old flag called the "Union Jack. I would like Mips Holmes to show where her class —the working-class—has any . freedom under the so-called flag of freedom. I am sure it is not because bar father has a grocer's shop in the main street of Waihi that she. enjoys this so-called freedom. . Again, she refers to the boon of education. Well, her father, having a good business, might be able to< send her to college and obtain a good education, but girls in positions like myself, who have their fathers working for a daily wage, find their parents cannot send their children to these colleges because they have not the money to do so. Why? Even the books that are necessary for secondary school course are so expensive fo.r the wage-earner to pay for, that it is on]y the likes of Hazel Holmes who can attend these schools, and- if they do attend these schools it is a great self-denial on the parents' part to let their children attend. Once again, dear Comrade Lily, I thank you for your kind congratulations to mc. —I am, yours in this great cause of humanity, ZEN A NORTON. P.S. —I challenged Miss Holmes to a public debate, and the "Star" kindly said they hoped Miss Holmes would take it up, but up to the present Miss Holmes has not come to light, but my challenge is still open. •