HERE AND THERE.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 May 1920, Page 9

HERE AND THERE.

(By D.J.H.), ''Breathes there a man with sould so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own my native land." /Yet how many of us realise it, and purchase the goods of our own Domin- » ion? Going into a shop in Hawera last , week I was shown several manufactured • joods from Wanganui. The high-class finish astonished me, and an exhibit in all our schools would, I am sure, be highly educational. Our boys and girls of to-day are the men and women of t to-morrow, and patriotism is a splendid . trait. With our abounding water power r this Dominion should become a great ' manufacturing country. The mention to business men of the ■ t Board of Trade always brings a smile. r The impression given to me when I e refer to this Board is that if you are . a man in a small way "look out," . but if in a big way "nothing doing." How quickly in what was the leading i democracy in the British Empire the differentiation element has crept in! We live and learn and get surprises s every day of our lives, and I got one d 'he other day. Coming by mail from g Haw em I was astoundjed to see six truck loads of shingle for concrete purI, noses consigned to the New Plymouth e Borough Council all the way from Na- , pier. Why does the Board of Trade not g rap the Railway Department on the knuckles for this? A handy thing for information and i usefulness would be a board in each t tow n, where dates of meetings of public bodies could be printed on, so as strangj ers would not be constantly asking e people for such information. Tiie Prince of Wales' visit is arousing , interest everywhere, especially amongst the Maoris. There could be seen last s on one morning eight special car- " r.-ages leaving New Plymouth to convey them to Kotoru,> This country _ seems rolling in money, and one would think there was no national debt. Just 0 fancy ,ninety stalwart policemen accompanying the Prince as a bodyguard s in a peaceful country like this! 1 venture to think that thirty importers n " d exporters from England would do ; more good, and they would go back imd pressed with this country's potential wealth. Of course, this suggestion is 0 not quite toney enough. I admit, but - would in my humble opinion be better than emphasising classifications which 1 are not much good to any country y or its people. d Cheap coal from Ohura is keenly enis quired about, but with our fossilised c way of constructing railways the people > who want it will have to wait. The I- Yankees would put the twenty or so f mile's through in say six months, but g with our party politics promising game ;- it will take years to accomplish.