NEW LEGISLATION

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 278, 20 August 1938, Page 13

NEW LEGISLATION

Professor Wonders About Results

HOCKEY TEAM MANAGER

Privileges Should Bring Responsibility

Dominion Special Service.

AUCKLAND, August 19.

‘‘Wonder exists in my mind about the results of the legislation of the Labour Government,” stated Professor Jagan Nath, of Punjab University, manager of the Prince of Manavadar’s touring hockey team, when giving some of his impressions of New Zealand. “I have a tremendous admiration for the honesty of Mr. Savage’s Government and for their willingness to ameliorate the lot of the masses.” said Professor Nath, “but there is wonder in my mind if that adjustment is taking place which can alone prevent reaction when some other Government comes into power.”

Professor Nath said if the whole country was to benefit from the changes made, the masses of the people must play the game by the Government and by the employer. Privileges should ixs accompanied by a sense of responsibility. While touring New Zealand he had been very interested to observe the country’s political and social life. Perhaps he had not seen enough to make up his mind about the question, but it had occurred to him that possibly a proper adjustment was not being made. If it was not, he could not see how the greatest benefit for all was to be obtained from the changes made. The effects of the 40-hour week which had come to bis notice were in hotels where the team had stayed. Meals had to be taken at certain times' or not at all. Perhaps there had been loss in efficiency and perhaps there had not been the same service there could have been. The point about privileges and responsibility might be applied here. “I have also observed that costs in New Zealand are very high,” he said. “When I came here I intended to make certain purchases, but now I see I cannot, so I am waiting until we reach Sydney and I will make them there.” Professor Nath said he did not wish to criticise the Government, because he had intense sympathy for what they were attempting. Mr. Savage and his associates had also been extremely kind to him and to the team. What he was saying was merely the essence of various thoughts he would take away from the country. „ ■ New Zealanders’ Physique.

Speaking of the physique of New Zealanders, Professor Nath:, who is very interested in physical education, said he had been impressed by the size and health of New Zealanders. They certainly had better physiques than the average Indian, and from his experience in Germany during the last Olympic lames he could say that the New Zealand youth compared very favourably with the young German. New Zealanders, of course, possessed more initiative than Germans. The reason' for the high physical standard in the Dominion, he thought, was to bo found in the gey tic climate, good water and air and abundance of food. In New Zealand there was no want as it was known in India. He had also been impressed with the mental standard of New Zealand’s young people. He had given addresses at a large number of schools, and he had been astonished by the quality of speeches made in reply to him by school monitors and prefects who were speaking quite impromptu. Prince’s Instructions. Of- the tour itself, Professor Nath said the Prince of Manavadar had impressed upon him three objects. One was to foster the spirit of hockey; He hoped the team had been able to do this tolerably well, although the inclement weather which had been generally experienced had prevented them from giving tlie - (demonstration they would have liked to give. The weather had also affected gate receipts, and it was doubtful, unless the third Test match was profitable, if the New Zealand Hockey Association would be able to make the tour pay. He hoped very much that a loss was not made. The second object had been to cement the ties of friendship between the two countries. The team had been assisted in this by the great kindness and hospitality of New Zealanders, many of whom had provided special opportunity for this object by inviting

members of the team to their private homes. The addresses which he had been able to give might: also assist. .

The third object, one with which the Prince had specially charged- him, was the strengthening of Imperial bonds. He himself had been very willing to undertake this task because for him the Empire meant everything, and he hoped that he had been able to achieve something in this respect through: the agency of the friendships he had made and the talks he had given.