IN THE PUBLIC MIND.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 177, 28 July 1928, Page 8

IN THE PUBLIC MIND.

BOYS ON FARMS. LOCAL LADS 10 BE HELPED. (Jo the Editor.) run,,1,1 like to reply to the letter. "Justice. "J„< 1 i l;, 1;tj11"" and "X ative So n "»? appa rent !y tailed f> -,e the points that I , • n my letter defending rj„. Church of EnS M-.i.-nie ot getlli.ir out an,l looking aftS? -m, m^rant : a..,! j.lannir them in the 1 heir eh let trouble seems to be that th^^ s ' *»**»- after nut after \eu Zealand bov<- tt - S that is that the Church and mostISSZJS m .New Zealand would naturally think thSTfi ■W Zealand hoys wo„l d be looked aft£fc£their own parents and therefore require a church organisation to on the land. However tlip nrr'f the* Church of England J"" t anxi...i- for New Zealand boys jdaeed on the land :i s immigrants, and as t)«i! is- an unfilled demand f.. r boys, over and £ those coining our a-, immigrants, as cmT >.-eu t,,.m the number of advertisemeS« the Miiiieet askmg t,, r boy- to go milking ft. V '- n Committee has decided*^ put its organisation at the service oHw 1...VS who have no parent,, or whose parSl do not know how to go about situation tor their ,on<. If anv sn £ * oi bo\ s will eommunieate with Mr 1 " T~l' t IIaU " f , < '"" n, "' rce - Auckland, he* J-' be to give them lull particulars. Th£ offei should satiety the writers 0 f the above letters. Native Son raises the noint +1. «. farmers do not want boys j„ the off-season. Ty! i< entirely wrong and should be fought atra ~t as "Hi.'h as possible. Employment should be tor the mil twelve months, otherwise tinemIdoyinent m the winter will be perennial with . ,' flL * "-"ally a number of fafm operations that are postponed during £ milking season that should be done durins tlw winter, and 111 any case the employee is entitled to a holiday as well as the farmer himself. Justne states that it 1- not neeessarv f or England to send out emigrants and that livim? is cheaper 111 Kngland than here. I was m Kngland three years ago. and I totally disagree with him; Kngland is just as overcrowded w e 1,1 Zealand are 111 the opposite position. She is like a hive ready to swarm with nowhere for the surplus to go. while New Zealand is like a roomy hive with the combs only halfbuilt. I am, of course, referring to the Opportunities of developing laud and not to the New Zealand cities. E. YATES

PREDATORY MAN.

lue ju- titled wrath of "the woman scorned 3 at present cimihitjng through your paper i« deserving or" further support from another woman. Nowadays one of us. whether thin iat, short or tall, cannot walk down Qneen Street, especially during the lunch hour of one to two, without undergoing a humiliating battery of masculine eyes focused upon * latel\ much-discussed item of apparel. Is it possible that all the indignant voung <d r i s who have been compelled to escort themse'ves home oyer perhaps live miles of dark suburban road after having expressed their thanks for a lift in the nature of a good old-fashioned ® across the ears are. after all. nothing but a mote pronounced species of the Iving female! \ou bet they are not: I have walked Luxe Oil two occasions, and that before I had su;>po>edly reached the ace of discretion. 2ilacy quite respectable girls have accepted sur'h invitations in a misplaced belief in the masealine sense of honour. I want it to be clearlyunderstood I am defending only the deserviif* female and that I admit the sterling qualities possessed by quite a number of men. MARY LOU. A SCOTTISH INVASION.

I notice that the Scots are again being greatly exercised by what they are pleased to term "Irish invasion of Scotland." and they have caused the Home Secretary some embarrassment by their demands upon him te right this "wrong."* To me it seeins wonderful that even so patient a people as the English should continue t'"> put up with what is an even more impudent invasion. I refer to the intolerable usurpation of the high offices of the Church of England l>y natives of Scotland. The fact that Dr. Davidson hails from North of the Tweed made it certain, unless a mirade intervened, that his successor would be another Scot. On Wednesday I read that Dr. Cos me Cordon Lang lms been offered the Primacy, and the message naively concludes '""he i» willing to accept the position/' He comes from Aberdeen. x The Church of England vru made in England by Englishmen for Englishmen, and at this, its most critical period, It would be well if its head were an Englishman. The Church has just been led into the greatest debacle of its history, and its leaders, the two Archbishops, are both Scotsmen. COLQUHOUX MURRAY. [We do not take any responsibility for ow correspondent's »trainre opinions when we add that since this letter was written the appointment of Dr. Lang has been officially* announced.—Ed.] MENTAL DEFECTIVES.

llcally "Anthoiiv V'" letter is most amusing, a- well as ridieuloti-. Who on earth was this unfortunate Ada Burke, born I>S vears ago, when conclition«. of living were so entirely difterent from these day-Clas-insr neurasthenics on the insane line show- great ignorance, *5 specialists say no matter how bad a nervous breakdown is ;t iid what the physical suffering N. unless there is lunacy in the familv. it never leads to insanity. A, for the poor neurotic lau\ mentioned as having eight children and then several more, i- it anv wonder she was neurotic? had to think. I presume, how t" feed, clothe ai.d keep a roof <.»\•,-r the heads of -uch a suarm. N".i wonder the husband's health picked ii]i when he g..l a rest in the mental hospital away from the clatter. Lecentiy a, great composer went stone blind as the result of a liervou- breakdown. and I know personally of a ca-e of total deafness caused through shock and a i.ervous breakdown. Are^ cases like the-o to i v treated as mental defective-"'; 1: thi- i•"I is passed, what next can we expect in the curtailment or liberty v c i.l jjI'ATKA. TEACHERS AND BIBLE IN SCHOOLS. \ou ipiote t:g::11'.• - t_<. teachers' oppoMtiou to the Bible in s.CXemplilied I >.v institute \otn,-. | - :V s of the New Zealand Ediicat ioi.al i:. -•!: 141.• executive / vote repie-eiu nothing. ina-i. ; - the executive i- not repre-ciit at:\ eof t!:. juater portion of teachers. Many tea.-le'- .| belong to the Institute, and of t !;••«•• ... only the one- i;i or near the centre- .. a : u.iilv a.-sume executive positions, and ot ; a.- \ •-» lemainder many have 110 say in tie- ei■ the executi\e. Din ing the \ car* li.l. c ii> a member I have received univ or..- i.alioi i-.u-e'- and that ten days after the'ballot cl-se.:' I "ndoubtedly a leferendtini on the Hit.., in ( |ue~tion would be a decisive iv\.■:-:<! . : executive deci.-ioii. a I,d 1 a--ert ti..i* r ii- .\.. utive of the \.Z.E.I, i- afraid to take a 1 ote of all public school teaehe.■> nd iv'.' -i) actual Q ? WALK 1 TKKAI IMA TAHL