A GREAT MISTAKE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 138, 8 December 1914, Page 8

A GREAT MISTAKE

TO THB EDITOR. Sir,— As an advocate of Bible in schools may I claim a. small Rpace in your journal. I am very sorry indeed to see the great mistake many of the supporters are making in the course they intend to pursue with regard to voting. They do not seem to realise that by not recording their vote they practically give their vote to the candidate they Would not otherwise vote for. May 1 offer a, little illustration for example : Mr. White, an honourable, upright nmnj is opposed lo Bible in schools on conscientious reasons, Mr. Black, his opponent '"•undesirable in every way—is also opposed to Bible in schools. Twenty voters in constituency (for argument's sake), fifteen Bupporters of Mr. Whiter five of Mr. Black. Mr. White's fifteen supporters have pledged themselves to vote only for a candidates who supports Bible in schools. ; therefore, Black's five supporters put him in, and tho country loses the services of a good man, and an unprincipled man is put in through the ignorance of the Bible-in-Schools people. I am, etc., ANGLICAN.

Tho Postal authorities advise that the s.s Moana, which is due from Sydney to* morrow, ie bringing Australian mails only. It was reported to-day that them is no improvement, in Mr. Allan Maguire's condition. The destructive effect of motor traffic on roads within the county was the subject of a report, by the inspector to the Hutt County Council to-day. Re. f erring bo the Taita-Heretaunga'Poad in particular, he said : " The condition of this road was very eafcisi&clory a month ago, and had it not been for the motor traffic, which has been very heavy and continuous of late, it would not have needed much attention for a couple of years. The cost of upkeep of tho roads is increasing yearly, and in the near future some other and more substantial method of road maintenance will have to be adopted." Under a. spreading eucalypt, The township blacksmith stands; Tho smith, a splendid chap is he, Who doctors a.ll his "hands" With remedy pure, the Peppermint Cute, , And thoir health is always sound ; Thoir lives are long, their sinews strong, As they work their daily round,— Advt.