The Daily News. SATURDAY, APRIL 16. CATCHING THEM YOUNG.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 365, 16 April 1910, Page 4

The Daily News. SATURDAY, APRIL 16. CATCHING THEM YOUNG.

"Distant fields are greenest," and this] is the reason why the undeveloped colonies are surrounded with a halo of romance by the youth who hasJ beenbrought up in less romantic Britain. This romance has always induced settlement. It was the unknown that induced the earliest colonists to brave the perils of early settlement in this country; and the same idea is at the hack of the present excellent agitation trt draft large numbers of boys to NewZealand and Australia. The scheme deserves the help of every person who sees further than his home paddock, for it is men we went in the colonies. It: is a fact that any determined youth who 'has health and strength may by his own endeavor win for himself a competence in New Zealand, but the point that concerns New ZeaJanders most in any scheme of colonisation is that good , (human material from oversea is an imI mediate national asset. Too much emphasis cannot be placed 011 the fact that New Zealand is sparsely populated, that ■ its potencies for production have only I heen ''scratched," so to speak, and that ®ther nations are a.s well aware as we that the Dominion is worth holding and developing. The oversea person" who comes i 0 New Zealand and makes a 'reasonable success of his life, in the > majority of cases, becomes a true New Zealandsr. His sympathies are with' the conatrj that pay.? him for the work he does; his aspiration should be to use , tft'ents and his opportunities for tTT§I advancement of the State particularly' and the Empire generally. Work for oneself is. work for New Zealand. W.qrk 1 Hrr Zealand is work for the Em-ifr-J* 01 ' k for thi Empire is a guarantee of safety. So that "The Central Emigration Eoard" of London is Imperal m its aspirations, without specially saying so. Its primary idea is to help British boys whose chances are not verv splendid at Home to a position where they iwill develop into the best kind of colonial citizens—men on the land., No one else in this country counts as much as the tiller of the -soil. Any organisation that catches Britons young and ' caiefully trains them deserves all praise I not only for the good done to the young [ Britons, but because of the material advancement every willing worker means to the country. The enormous expan-! sion of the United States in industj and the wonderful yearly increase in 1 Uinada s output are the results of .the I efforts both countries make to attract outsiders. The cosmopolitan nature of, : both countrie.s gives them !n ideas and in inventive rs- > searcli. Chaiigi* ficctinaHoil anj en- ' vironment frequently spurs torpid minds to advantageous effort.- People who have never been heard of in the old countries become celebrities in the new. Men who have lived in cities all thehi ' youth have become'great pioneers; fac-! ' torv hands have become srre.it fanners ' and so on. One of.Australia's million'-! 1 aire station-owners, was n French- 1 1 ■polisher who had never stramri ] further than his master's workshon be- ' fore he hit out'for the New World. ( Sit Henry Parkes, one of Australia' 1 greatest statesmen, was a maker of 1 billiard-balls in the Old Country. The point is that these celebrities were; 1 caught voune, and would never ha-vq been celebrities if they had remained in 1 the Home workshops. This new Home 1 organisation for despatching sturdy ] boys to the colonies and to trainingfarms has already sent five hundred bovs oat. There must, of course, be a certa in 1 percentage of failures, but this is inevitable in any scheme. We have, indeed some failures even among the * native-born. As an evidence of the, bona £ fides of the scheme the organisationj does its work without pa v. Some of < the methods emploved in the Old Coun-' ! try to induce ncople to come to New ! Zealand are not above susnicion, for < agents with oilv toil-rues, and who have * never been in New Zealand, draw large 1 commissions from the sTiipnincr companies for every nnssen<rer induced to 5 use their boats. The emierant should I be told the truth about New Zealand: t and as the real truth eniinhasises' the ? noint that "onlv workers need f it may be told honestly and nointedlr. ? No country wants lonfers. "Manv of the

immigrants helon2-in<r to the class indi- T oated soon lipcome clti'tpr on the eountrr. refuse to leave the towns. and nre a, sfvontov nuisance than thev were in thp Old Cmmtrv. Vonn<r. strong. ambitious TO"fh« are f-fi» best Vnirl o f r>ol"- pi nVit.fiinililp. fo* thev hfivn n. eh n iipp In of TiP"oniin" true y«w w>>nsr>l a< life is flip life of thp emintn* i'" l ■-'•ii'v™ 'fli aspirations Ipp<l to tlinir own hpHov. fj rnent 'and a greater and stronger Em- ol pire. m CURRENT TOPICS. , A cablegram from Paris tells n* *£, , ! the Court of r . a i4' ■ , Idiots May has decided J Vote - 1 , , -jiflftdj )s entitled « to vote liny dly y the e things ln nyer _| fl age peiaon %y«te the French Court of .t Cassation imagine tiiat idiocy, rl was ratliei' reason w'hy a (person » 8 jOViltl not \)e able to place a member in the Senate (for one vote might do that). In most countries the man wit is entitled to exercise a vote is also < •' titled to become a member of Pa'ment. The introduction of idiots _'' ra Parliament would be an intores'tir ppriment. If idiots are entitled I ■£ they are entitled to Pa.rliamen f vot presentation, There is in New Mry rc a. very large proportion of n Ze;tran< faring from mental disturba' cople mil i, proved by the size of the »to\ 'lhi pitals in the centres and mental hos seheme for erecting a ce" ( '' v the lie Computing the number of ntral liospua tal hospitals at the 1 ■ •people in mei 2400. if the French law .ow estimate c Zealand the asylum operated in Xp l s'everal prospective rotes might mal< ! pletely happy. -The politicians con of Cassation is per derision of the Coui extraordinary eve .haps one of the mos jbe interesting tr -r given, and it woul ed grave and s / discover what promp I at their cone' ane counsellors to arrvv disqualified" .usion. "Lnless otherwis of the mine suggests' that idiocy is or

Perhaps you did not know that an

Australian half soverToo Much eign is not worth veil Red Tape. shillings? It appears

that Australian coin is not now legal tender, and people lidding stocks of Australian sovereigns' and half-sovereigns must take due notice. As they are not now coins (according to an eminent legal authority) they may possibly be used as buttons or tie pins, brooches or sleeve-links. While they were al'lowed circulation it wa.v an offence to deface a coin. The majesty of the New Zealand law has decided that our Australian brothers must not send any of their new silver coinage here, and so it is possible that very little will drift this way. Australia will have to get rid of her surplusage of Broken Hili silver at home. A "federation of coin" throughout the (Empire would be too terrible. Some /portion of the Empire might make a few thousands of pounds' more than some other parts, and this would not be fair. It appears that it .would be necessary to 1 get Imperial sanction before the nimble shilling bearing an Australiaai face dare cross the Tasman Sea. There are so many difficulties in our relations with Australians that Sometimes one wonders whether they really are of the same flesh and' blood as we. How dare they mint silver, anyhow?

"Do some good action every day." Ba-den-Powell, instructor Boy Scouts of the Boy Scout moveand ment, lays that down as Powellka. a necess'ary qualification

for a Boy Scout. Manhunting for any .boy is bad business — for city boys it is stupid. The idea of sending Wellington schoolboys into strange country to hunt for a man who may or may not be the dreadful person he is written to be, is farcical. The only view that one can take of the sending of the Boy Scouts and the Dominion Scouts ;is' that both corps are merely notoriety hunting—advertising so to apeak. For the sake of the Hoy Scouts we hope that ithey \'lo not .meet I'owelka—if Powelka is the ferocious monster the frightened police treat him as being.

So the Tarannki Rugby Union lias thrown out tl}« ;Rwre;iTho Bayly tion Sports Ground pate Memorial, scheme to perpetuate the memory -of Alf. Bayly—one of the football giants of the past, and beneficent patron of ttie game in the province lip to the time of his 1 lamented death—and declared in favor Of founding a Bayly scholarship. Tile; latter nscjjQjse was propounded by Mr. D. Malone, am} pSl'takes of the nature of a miniature Rhodes scholarship in that the qualifications lveeesspry for winning the scholarship are piiyskttl and moral i as well as mental. The scheme lias licMi ; attractions. In itself it is infinitely j better than the memorial gates. Hindi a§ we would have liked to see them adorn the entrance to tli-o sports ground. The only obstacle in the way is that of finance. If a £IOO grant can he obtained from the New Zealand Ruglry Union and the public will respond'toi the tune of another £IOO, the scheme will be workable. If £3OO to £4OO is not available the scheme should not be proceeded with, but something less ambitious undertaken. We hope Mr. Malone and his friends will be successful in securing the necessary funds for so »raiseworthy an object, and since the scheme has been decided upon, they can depend' upon receiving every possible assistance from supporters of the game at this end of the province.

.The banking' returns for the March quarter present a very The Banking cheering view of the Returns. financial condition ot

the country. They are so satisfactory, indeed, that .it is' difficult to realise that only twelve month" ago we were 'deploring the appearance of a very different picture. Compared with the returns for the corresponding period of last year, the present figures show tliat the free deposits have increased by £1,484,472, the fixed deposits by £586,410, and the Government deposits by £1,111,<585. The total deposits held by the banks at the end of last month were £24,491,029, an increase of £3,182,567 upon the amount held at the same date last year. During the snine the advances declined from £IS.186,909 to £16,178,128, a shrinkage of £2,008,781, and the discounts from £2,132,502 to £1,815,317, a decrease of advances exceeded the deposits by £234,391, but this year the deposit's £4,162,317. The note circulation has shared in the general improvement, the mount rising from £1.587,051 to £1.618,121, and the banks' stock o? coin ml bullion has advanced from £4,712,935 to £5,077,083. The snecinl correspondent of the Otago Dailv Times, in jommfcntiiig upon the returns, says that they demonstrate in the most conclusive ivay that the depression which \v n troubling us last vear has departed. , s is a magnificent recovery," he adds. -"['f partly to rigid economy, but m - <%ie the bountiful season just e\" <t n tnd the comparative!v high jprienwl tained for our products. prices obwr° paT'tierilnrly

lie spirit of discon' alleged , ren t wa* That Tired the r . t0( Tfvm pnnt in Feeling. Ta f.ia fa ' Rlflln!r 0 f the t .l'h a:> 'Conntv when >snl was liefe .m Ty f n nntv nrointo ,-y' tile ,-fU'iciHiTPVs. and tho Iministre xti created in countv ' n ' ,V\ w .«"'C evidentlv lnit a on of • -*- P'lu. ■y-ot (lypn the imnosifl .p 6,1 Tat;o 11,1(1 * IIP ( i rnotinri " n/.i fat Agate seem to he re--mi/ere<| now v , . -erp.st as that ' tI,P sa T I,w1 >' ,n ; Hie rntenavr ,T ' T a fow mn " n,! ' no, °' an(l nto the "or fhere liave seHled 'vewthincr .i'i old liumdntm of entrn=tm? villi 110 (> om ' ll^v councillors. lf)rT)pr r save that of streeti-' ,jj Tln . n , jr.. TTttli<>T, dairv factorv—</rut'iorß"v'.- .id eritiei'm. The same connci!Pn 't n ( to sat on the Council ps renre]eet', -frrs of that rhlinir hive lieenf s ,r aH "nnonnosed. This mav he ] lf j cornTinment to the councillors for , j -manner in which thev have o»i----javoTcd to conserve the interests of the .jOTnle: it mav he, and prohahlv is. an indication that the ratepayers -it the | ij present time don't care a fie. When the ; >1 Couneil proceeds to levy the rate= for - the incoming vear there will ho n lmzz - of interest and some more crowlinrr. 3 Then the neonlo will slumber nftiepfnllv - until their nopket<s are n-8 unless another "Tapnae" is hrnuuht into !- hein?. i - So the delav in delivering the dre.i'ff lo s the Xew PlyntouUi The hoy Hoard is rot V "Paritutll." the fault of tlm I>nil<'..ys. 1. after all. Tt is pis*- to 1- hurl anathema on a firm at the other'■'"lf if r s tim -..-Ovid and to thre'ii nn th"m 11 ,v i soyfs of r.ninq n'ld pemH.«-- fnv 0 liren"h of contvaet. .A'k l 't's «;'•. 'on l-j to adont 1 "/•/>j>if>-1>«"k-nl 1 -'''-e'>!.1'» «»»'•"• "t w l«B • it ia shovi f in t tlie itj ppefc: flivpntc al c O to tn'--(> a shirn of the iiot on e r tq n ,T - 11 "> r ' M e remis®T ,nj s tim nfl-'- nf - - ' - " 10 pials. The /Tvo'lto. h 0 I** 1 ** ' r " le wav. piir l it. shonl' l he V. .>"• aeo'it *iu. rr . . - it . ._ .e T„l„

to l>e delivered to the Board in New Plymouth before the final payment, loss ten per cent., is jinicle. But the vessel has to he registered in the name of the Board, and this can only he done in Wellington before the vessel reaches here. With the registration the captain must hand over the whole of the ship's papers to the Board, which means that she becomes the property of that Board before she is actually paid for. The final payment is to be made after she has given a satisfactory trial on seventy-two working days in the New Plymouth harbor. As the builders are naturally diffident about handing over the property before the money is paid, and the Board won't accept delivery and par the money at Wellington where the registration and handing over of possession must be effected, the Board decided to leave its solicitor to solve the problem. The members were emphatic in their decision to abide bv the contract.