LATE NEWS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 109, 4 November 1925, Page 6

LATE NEWS

LOVE OF FREEDOM

LOST BY NEW ZEALANDERS

AN ENGLISH WRITER'S CRITICISM

(DNIIED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPVBWHT.)

(AUSTRALIA* NEW ZEALAND CABLI ASSOCIATION.) (Received 4th November, 2.30 p.m.) . LONDON, 3rd November.

Striking statements were made by Constance Clyde in an article in the "Empire Review," in which she suggests that the space-loving people of New Zealand are more naive and untrained than Britons, and lose their love. of personal freedom, and submit to a reversion to feudal control and interference, which would not be tolerated in -England, where corrective organisations would apply restraint. Miss Clyde mentions the activities of an overgrown public service in regard to this, and cites the proEosal to compel unmarried' mothers to and over their offspring to State asylums. She suggests that New Zealand has not a native or alien race to do servile work, and therefore unconsciously wishes to breed her own race of serfs. The writer alludes to a number of rational children kept as State slaves or' as mental defectives. Till the State picks out a girl, she says, who bore a child, and who is then labelled as mentally below par and is sent to an institution. The writer alleges that this money due to this girl is never spent on her, while the girl works hard at felling trees. There is a further instance of a return to old barbarism in the Education Department's proposal that illegal children shall become its property, and liable to be handed over to either parent or to a State institution.