NEAR AND FAR.

Evening Star, Issue 14687, 3 October 1911, Page 8

NEAR AND FAR.

At. nn Opposition rally at Pnlmorslon Xorth last night the member for Tuapeka, whilst acknowledging that Mr M'Xab and the Minister of .Agriculture were good men. but on the wrong side of the House, advised the electors of the respective constituencies to send Sir J. CJ. Findlay. Mr Mackenzie, rnd Mr M'Xab back to Southern electorates'. A most interesting week's camp of secondary school boys from F adding, -Marton, and Taihape began their agricultural experiences as the guests of Mr Short at the Armadale stud farm yesterday, under Mr Grant, the Hoard of Education's supervisor of agricultural education. Mr Ihuilop, manager of the stud farm, lectured and demonstrated with Clydesdales. Herefords. Romneys. etc.. and lucerne growing. The veterinarian, Mr Rait, lectured, and Mr Guthrie, M.P.. Mr Braik. chief inspector. Mr Pirani. chairman of the board, spoke, the latter saving that be regarded the .canip as a valuable experiment. Before the Court of Appeal yesterday, in the case Mayor of Miramar and others v. M'Leod and the Attorney-General, the Court, at the conclusion of argument for appellant, held that the case, was governed by the, decision of the Court of Appeal in re Sclwyn County Council. The Court held that where a street was diminished in width it was necessary for the borough council to comply with the conditions in the seventh schedule to the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908. Costs were allowed against the appellant. At a meeting of the Wellington City Council yesterday it was resolved—(l) That a new traffic manager should be appointed, at a salary of £7OO a year ; (2) that a reserve fund be provided and a liquid account be kept; and (3) that the tramway department be debited with part of the cost of tho supervision of the track by the city engineer's staff. "These men read in the sensational Press day after day accounts of the enormous wealth of the country and of the brutal, vulgar, Byzantine display of wealth which went na in the West End. These men, trying to keep wives and families on 17a, 18s, or anything up to £1 a week, saw this wealth, this extravagance, parading itself naked and unashamed, and when they went to the very men who were displaying this wealth and this extravagance and asked for a shilling a week more for their wages they were told they could not get it. Their hours had been increased, their wages had been gradually lowered in nia.ny cases, rents had gone up, the cost of living bad gons up, and they had these men trying to maintain themselves, their wives, "and their families in decency on a few shillings a week.—Mr Ramsay Macdonald in the House of Commons.