"Tona Koo, Pakchal"

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 139, 16 June 1927, Page 10

"Tona Koo, Pakchal"

"May I offer, us my first Temark," said Sir A. Boyd-Carpenter, M.P. for Coventry, in au address at tho Town Hall last night, "an attempt at tho musical language of tho great race in Now Zealand? 'Tena Koe, Pakeha!' (Laughter and applause.) It is a wel-' como and v greeting, with a music which must appeal to everybody of our I race, for if thoro is one thing which has struck my colleagues and myself, as we are going through this wonderful Dominion, as regards the Maori, it is tho wonderful musical quality of tho voice, tho imagery of his mind, and tho tone of his utterance. I should wißh, and you all wish—aithough tnese are sido issues perhapH in ono way that they should be preserved, for they represent a great deal in the British Empire." Hire-purchase System. The opinion that tho extension of the hire-purchasQ system to articles of luxury was a menace to the prosperity of the Dominion was expressed by Mr. A. G. Lunn at a meeting of the council of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Lunn »aid that while the systom had at first been applied to articles used in production, things which could only be regarded as luxuries were now being purchased under it. He ! mentioned that the growth of the system was causing-alarm. in Britain and America. Mr. H. P. Caughey said the schedule of articles regarding which hire-purchase agreements could be registered under the Chattels Transfer Act had been extended far beyond the limits originally set. Ho suggested it was time the position was reviewed and the Act amended in accordance with the intentions of its framers. Originally the schedule contained only articles used in production, such as ploughs and sewing macines. The matter was referred to the executive for consideration.