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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20199, 30 March 1931, Page 1

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-Earthquake Bill could be put ihronghin one night* there is no reason ikabould be prolonged. The situation js entirely withprecedent b6 far as New Zealand |s ccaidbied, and. although there are fhe experiences of Japan and of California to fallback on, the Government fa& hsA to fnflke many decisions &$ We shall therefore not know l , Until the' plan is in actual operation/ precisely what) effect will he of tone of the fundamental clauses, and to spend nighta discussing them .would in nine, casps oat of ten be a waste of time;- It can also he said generally that the Bill has already been approved bythe public. Its leading -principles were explained by the Prime' Minister over & fortnight ago, and there has been £o f , hostile entupun since or evidence &£ national uneasiness. A good will depend on, the selection, of the members of the Adjustment Court, piixce most of the ablest "men in Hawked Bay will be interested parties, and saen, who do not .belong to the fcarthquake area'will have difficulty in appelating the effects of the calamity, There is tbfc further diffi"cnjiisr that if the'rate of the proposed taxlis. tbo high jnore money will be possible' to spend wWy> while, a low,rate ( |pns-difitaijce levy will eeem id the gpffarifs .themselves to.be ungenerous. Bft%»6 aie not, separately or combined* in exenae for an foternjinable' debate. Whatever fpy aeinbef Bays he gae^^/ it be and again th#t he will be that !.',' >« .TO jEa*.,*niXQia '.Hit: ifcg. pastes - ' Sir^rit','/ib l ;*' I r »iQrifey* M f Jiot ' T&fc'l&'ait©-.? t ,s new v ; jfer&ti'to *Wttat, r i>f-tlis "When, U nitons wej-ti getting wore than' • fpr M W€ir f jprpduoe,. :ftad 'dgentfe tjpc, Vfew receiving- "qomipiEigpine t forwaM ;tof- tab* ■ the,' places .pwßf. «.T,hiai w-'tfee - right sombMs of te4<. ' . v - *'■ ~ -—• M hostels were a bnrdferi and two school y jjWfcre tapping up tiiost of, the" 'g'ruht 9 In the Byfib<F of 2929, tlie Bishop Bpok< ir ..feelingly oo ;the sabject, bu£ his atl * ilregs might .be, described -as "Juatjci . tempered with'' mercy." .>■ Mi; Cuijning'i }, f address v in' St, Michael's its an «nswei to thifc Bishop. ' However* desirablf "Church schools may be. Stinday school: Ure vC serious, wont, arid of 'first ,jrrT . portance. „ * * ' > , , 1 , i Are .we. doipg,Our best'tyr, Sjihd*i.i As A General Synod,, held id lJunedjn-,tn 1925, the iollow.in# resjQlult fcion' was carried 4 _, '7 k> -"That-tb^'iiyilpd'rie£ainmt?tidg the l ' adoption , ofrt syllabus of' Sunday & " school use throughoat thc 1 province, J-.»jjd. that- .the,. StimdrttfZ ,* .Coronjjjtifcoe ■of Synod be in* - - strnctod to *take stieh, maj* , ' be -necessary, to' dive effect to^.ihiS reoomtaeudation." „ ~ r I ■; „ < •., ! T- „ . "V j _ Standing Ct>niiTJiUee. uctmpon'tljost* ( jnstrifritions- appointed" h sub-rCQifofoiit- >■ ,4ee.s.tuitr{othlng Wft«.done} att lea«t,\\Ve ) never; stiw>/ the' <svll«bus; Sunday ' .schools' travel-like a' roolv instead of , , marching sis an a»ny. j - , > , ' tXwlfi' cafiyrf hip on. a §vni>d, debate l in theUjorree-' cojijraria of thwpubfiePress, i - "ihot \ve, outsiders -should express.-our 'views? "We/ r tlia'ok, Vou.-M;r Editor! foi' privilege of,' iisirig, your. Tahiafcle °pitr»eV,-flar the, pu'rppse.' J R . r ; v v; : : ' "S.vno<;!9tnnii,"' in ufj March- -26ihl says "that Jftahopaeourt, "was built" with Trust "money, "which "could' W .used 'foK,ncT other' plirpcfeei Cffft ' t S.vh , f>dsmnh ,> tfcll us who* piVidted this money? The. Grigm, is *surdy, not , lost in Yott|«/ e%-,v '• ■ - • : HTSTORIOUS. ■ -*'-l y,} '• - *»' i t ** 'j" 'I J 1 \ t 1 '""i™ 11 a l ■ i who would* do "better employed *ii . work 6n~ land ' where, thanks, to -wife s - less and easy .transport, life is flior . healthy than in .town. :_ - ■ -• - h > Lincoln College is, I turning i , out capable men as 'managers • The Government is offering racihtia > for cheap labour. Let there.Be a" re i. turn, to' the'land. A , ; . It,-is ; not necessary. :to _ charge ahoul in motor-c&rs' attendjnj , sales, etc., .Agents can he.relied upoi ,to protect ..clients interests. fheii ; ha» also been ,foo much; of the; speculator on 5 " ili6 "get-rich-(quiet." , a { man the artSdgerj < of farming-is distasteful. " Her hftS nc eye-' for .stock—all - a^-e., alilte, to . htm; so Canterbury *sh«ep have lateljp deteriorated-.- now; to loot ;to the .hitherto despised "Romhey- ewes" ftfoni the North Island. .'JWe hlopd, Qn, the< land to restore failterb,ury, .to" its. former -post ~tion the granary, of Neiy Zealand, but not at the expense of the North .Islander, whioli riglitty , Complains oJr . tbe ; price of-, wheasi At the'outset--it is 'imperatiye that the high eharges on -;land be-reduced, but "neither will this be effected by penalising l th(s ; first ■mortgagee. It -p. time- for the-latter ?£o''defend himself,.—Yours, -etc.,, ! ; - - . - - RETIRED-. . March 28th,* 1931. ' , ' '' I- T or tans rasas, spondent "Synodsbe master saJSto sign his name lallengea me to instance of the istees applying to c to divert money r specific purposes rough I feel under ept any,-'challenge correspondent, i of the.opportunity fence upon whicn ised. ■ tnt siiye, a Bill was int recently which in) to wake a » the Bishop; (b) the widow* of any ;h out of the jn--io JEstate; "bot -respondent, "is the objects of the version of the inses." Be -'quotes ill; unfortunately », which* for'reamself, he refrains #®Ssermission for • bo be devoted to- - ision. -for- special lates for--Holy ir, that to devpte Withe "sort of fpr Holy Orders sotne'to purposes tfciwt was ongia142,772'children. ! Sunday- Schools,' was, how were ast? Your 90JV , it-minister^ is dqcfgiUK my ing it. What jL >t w|k> bent the t basis were* they ay number ojr the ? Everybody re !i In the-Angli- .■ • this diocese,.for distressing _ dis'numberlon wiq rapg>' 'attend,he rolj- 'HUtober he number actu"l - ftrbat Indents yrJio do not comply, with •rt in the last column o! otup will excßu us £mm* ootlcios With the latest number of the Economist there is issued an ekborate Commercial History of 1930, ill effect a history of the great slump; and this is preceded by an arti

CHRISTCHURCH, N.Z., MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1931.