ENGLAND’S PROBLEM

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1066, 2 September 1930, Page 10

ENGLAND’S PROBLEM

TALK BY CITY MISSIONER ORIGIN OF BRITISH The Rev. Jasper Calder left it to htf audience to choose a subject for b - address to the Auckland AdverusiEs Club at its fortnightly luncheon** day. Mr. W. H. V. Taine presided. Among the subjects suggested by tfc* City Missioner were, “The Ballad Terror, or Unemployment.” Room Only, or Birth Control. “The Lazy Diamond, or the Origin the British.” The last named subject was ellwand the speaker traced the the British. He showed how tne. had been a migration westward i _• more or less diamond-shaped through Europe right down throng" the ages. In the primitive tiroes - animal passions were uppermost man moved where he could get and shelter. In England .• traces of every race in Eu T O ? e _ aTT , e c be found. The oldest English could mostly be traced back to dm parts of Europe. Very few wo> _ the English language were of A*** Saxon origin. He referred to a message which had in one traces of nine languag • -... it had been written in wna accepted English today. England might be a congtoroertO of races, but they had weul _ formed the basis of what shgj, P the greatest nation of the wor * • . ff was conservative, however, a conservatism was fostering ® we *s ment and distress which grew worse. In the vtvuM" his man could go out and look• oß t food; today, he was helpless of employment and it se€n Ljime on much as if civilisation was i this very point. In England » there were large areas oif lan thoUsa *d s in game preserves, while U enin ar* walked the streets hungry. so iviitf had gone a long way g«r: the problem of unemployment jt the lines of closer settlemen uf 0 . seemed that England cou cpeak er low that example. „*" fertsl >ce for touched on the need for FftcthatE® 1 * Empire goods on the & I !5 >un ,7^ T>e d fir 5 ’’ pire workers should be l Similarly, he stressed the aa good , of buying New Zealand-m wherever possible.