CORRESPONDENCE MISERLY GOVERNMENTS.

Shannon News, 29 April 1924, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE

MISERLY GOVERNMENTS.

(To Idle Editor.) ' Sir,—lt .is not possible that tire people* of New. Zealand.,, elm be awtiue ot lire tilings which are done iu their name. Do they know that the young fellows who trump or hike their weary round day by day in sweltering heat or bitter cold, are offered tire seundalous sum of £-3 Ws per week, out of which they must pay 35s for board and lodging? Does the public know that they get £6 less than they did five years ago Have, we no eyes to see when decent young fellows have to go about with their elbows out of their coats and with patches on their boots Not theirs the disgrace, ibut our the utter shame to take their useful service, and to so ill requite it. Amusement in moderation is* as necessary to the young as food. What possibility of any enjoyment, is there lor a poor young fellow Who cannot replenish his wardrobe. Dances P . Out of the question! Take a friend to the pictures? Equally, impossible! And what of the decent young fellow who longs to put a little by for a home foir the girl he dare not ask to share bis fortunes? There is a special ouirsc in'the Old Hook for those who “forbid to marry.” That is what we are permitting to he done in our name. Were vou forbidden to. marry, Sir High Morality, for how many years ooo.ld we trust you'' to so fight arid conquer the physical drawings of human nature that you would neither injure yourself or any other? And 'the lads with large sunns of money every day in, their hands, who must turn their'backs on every innocent pleasure. Oh, people of New Zealand! It is their vouth you are robbing them of; youth, which will never return. .No drtnlht it is low morality for 1 hose who help themselves to do so, but if they think they are but getting some of their own hack, is there nothin,g to he said on fha.t score? Certainly, Sir High Morality, send them to gaol if pit pleases vour selfghteousness, but in cxwmnom justice lace in the next cell with a trebly ngthv sentence with hardest, labour Ose who (fare to say that the people New Zealand could ever sanction the present, state of tilings. Truly—- “ Man, dressed in a little brief authorPlavs s such fantastic tricks befork High Heaven . As make the angels weep.” I am, etc., , SPECTATO'