CHANGE WOULD BE A CHANGE

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30568, 10 October 1964, Page 12

CHANGE WOULD BE A CHANGE

[By

WHIM WHAM]

Employers and trade unions alike are suspicious of change . . the reluctance to accept change is widespread, and is a factor which we must take Into account —The Minister of Labour, the Hon. T P. Shand, to the annual conference of the Technical Education Association of New Zealand. The Man who is pigheaded And loth to change the Ways To which he has been wedded, The Rut of bygone Days: That Man is not admired, Sir, That Man incurs our Scorn: He might as well have retired, Sir, The Moment he was born. Ourselves, we are progressive, We welcome Change, we do, With eager Looks, expressive Of Pleasure in What’s new. We’re doing All we can, Sir, » To take the Tide in Flood, But we can’t convince that Man, Sir, Who’s sticking in the Mud. Like every Politician’s, Our TALK is brave and bold. That Man has low Ambitions, That Man we loudly scold. That Man seems satisfied, Sir, He won’t get up and go: That Man is wretchedly tied, Sir, To the dreary Status Quo. But if that Man changed his Nature To crave the New and Strange, Would We, and the Legislature, Find THAT a welcome Change? Or would we find out then, Sir, That—Platitudes apart— That Man and the Rest of Man, Sir, Don’t differ Much, at Heart?