OF N.Z. INTEREST

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 13, 16 January 1925, Page 7

OF N.Z. INTEREST

VOTES AND BABIES. . (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, 3rd December. ' _ A woman professor (according to "the "Newcastle Chronicle") has been telling us that the decrease in the infant mortality rate has a direct relation with the giving of votes to women. 1 New ZeaJand, the first country to grant; the vote to women, had the lowest infant mortality. The infant .death- rate in this country has dropped considerably during, the last twenty years. There may bc-isomething in it, for it is very difficult to trace those results to any one cause. But didn't a'great scientist show that there was a relation between old maids and the corn crop? The "Nation" this week quotes Mr. Massey's Budget speech this year. ; , "I waut particularly to strike a warning note about over borrowing. . . . Care should be taken to see that borrowed money is, as far as possible, used only for revenue-earning purposjs. This ( is the policy which the Government has followed since the end of the war— that of building up against: the- public debt a collection: of assets which will go a long way towards providing the interest and sinking fund on the borrowed millions." . ■ *

"In consequence of following Mr. Massey's precepts," says'the- "Nation," "the credit of New Zealand stands hW .. .. - • ' ,

The writer then goes on to point tha iesson of providing for sinking funds, giving a detailed explanation of., the arrangements in New Zealand. "There caji be little doubt," says the writer, in conclusion, "that the practice now generally adopted by the leading financial houses in (London in regard to foreign loans, namely definite provision for redemption within a .specified period by means of annual drawings or purchases in the open market, if adopted in the caso o£ all future colonial loans, would net as an effective check on unrestricted borrowings. It would rlso provide^the most promising means of getting out- money back." "The Tablet" announces the death of a venerable nun, Mother M. Clare Elliot, of Sion Hill Dominican Convent, Dublin, aged 90, Prioress for the long term of 60 years. "Mother Clare was instrumental in sending out Dominican filiations to Port Elizabeth in „ 1867; Dunedin, in 1870 ; Eccles street, in 1882; and Muckrose Park, Doimybrooke, in 1900. Dunedin is now the mother house" of ten convents in New Zealand, while Port Elizabeth has two branch houses. So highly esteemed was this nun as an educationist that 'the late Archbishop of Dublin, in 1.893. availed of her services for the foundation of St. Mary's fiaivji«ifcjr Gpliege» \