DOUBLE BANKING.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 July 1918, Page 7

DOUBLE BANKING.

To the Editor. Sir, —It is very interesting to read the remarks made by the Rev. Burton, also to learn of the efforts on his part and liia colleagues to raise £15,000 in N.Z. for Foreign Missionary Work. While realising the importance ot Christianising the blacks, and teaching them to be civilised, one cannot but wonder whether the efforts of such men as Mr. Burton are of value, and aB to whether patient New Zealanders are in any sense of justice called upon to eontribute to the blackman, during this time of social and economic stress. Mr. Burton, very rightly, has stated that it really is the Government's duty to industrialise these races under their care. We have not got to leave our own shores to witness the badly organised conditions surrounding our native control. Mr. Burton lays objection to existing lazy native land owners, but he can wade knee-deep in it among the whites and feel quite happy, it being right to this Christian man's sweet will. Very' much could be said about this constant hand-in-your-pocket policy of to-day, under the guise of Christian pliilanthrophy, but when it come 3 to be weighed lip it has a taint of unfairness about it that could not exist if governing bodies did their duty and lived out Christian policies. I ani not complaining for myself as I will not subscribe, though I must indirectly suffer the loss of the £15,000 from my small country (of limited wealth) cither by loss ot ■business, wage or elso by extended cost of food.—l am, etc., "FED UP."