Organiser's Notes.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 45, 19 January 1912, Page 12

Organiser's Notes.

By EDWARD HARTLEY

Woe is UK , . CouijH.'tition, or my I'ailin-' to reach Hen!irtt'n htamlard, or iht* lii)t%<';;tli<'K, or the holidays, <>r noniefhiiiy; ciso, lias caused a (hop in the audience at lac Uporu House.

hi the kimlcM. m lfltiTSj a coniradi' gives mc a hint thnt 1 <lo not Hpenk ioii<f enough. This is probably true, but a serious illness two years ago warned mo that I must £0 a Kttlc t-asitir, ami my voice m*ms ti) \in\v< lost souk , oi its old rosonanrp. W«ll, at 57 one wmnot have tJio vigor of 37, but if at any Hinting the coinradcs dou't lmar well, will someone stand up and tell mcr 1 I'm an old hand, and can put up with such An interruption. In the letter mentioned, the comrade writes: ""You dealt out so many beautiful, instructive, simple illustrations and word pictures, it is a pity when they are not heard." It is a pity, for though one npeak with the tongues of men and angels and is not heard, he cannot he understood. That is all I am anxious about, j that the message of' Socialism be known »and understood. Thanks, comrade, for your letter. I'll try and do better. I am expecting great things to-night at Huntly. And the two following nights at Hamilton and Ngaraawahia. After Saturday evening's meeting I've to get back to Auckland for the Opera House, and after the meeting there, g»-t tho boat at 10 p.m. for "Whangarei, where we have' two meetings, one at Kiripaka, one at Limestone Island, and one at Hikuranga. Then back by Saturday's boat for th© Opera House meeting. 1 am due in Auckland until Sunday, February 4, after which I make my way south. Can anything be done Taumarunui? Will anyone help with some meetings at Wanganui? We are arranging for a week in the Feilding district and another at Palnwrston North, fitting these two together as far as possible. . If we can get the Wanganui visit through first, 1 can then go on to Napier and Gisborne, both of which places have written for dates. Then a visit to Mastorton and Wellington, and from there to Pic ton and Nelson, then on to Bullcr and Greymouth, covering tho West Coast anil perhaps round by Bluff and Invercargill to Dunetlin and so north again. But "tcmpuß fugit," and if you don't write at once we may. not be able; to fit you in without considerably more expense than if things a-re done orderly and well. We want the bigger places, with organisations already formed, to do their best towards the propaganda fund, in order that the spade work may be done in the smaller places. I have probably held more "first meetings for Socialism" than any man in Britain, and for smaller places where there' is a good central place for meeting have no objection to an outdoor pitch. Don't let us spend any unnecessary money either in fares or halls. Advertisement always pays. Another letter. A woman comrade writes: —"Dear Comrade Hartley.—Excuse mc writing, but I thought I would like to let you know how I enjoyed your reciting. 'Christmas Day' was just beautiful.—Fraternally yours, Emma Thank you, Miss or Madam Emma. If it make the New Zealand comrades determine that there shall bo no workhouses in this Dominion, that will do. But capitalism grows in New Zealand. It will bring with it something very like the British poorhousw. Capitalism is the enemy.