NATIONAL NEEDS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2856, 29 January 1916, Page 4

NATIONAL NEEDS.

WAR NEED NOT AFFECT THEM

There were some of the public, .said tho lion. J. A. llamiii (Minister for Education), in the course of a reply lo a deputation to-day, who would make the war an excuse to stop .certain surviecs; there were always reactionaries who would soiYo the opportunity to' discontinue progressive works on the grounds of economy. For. instance, in this connection there were some who thought that medical inspection of schools could well stop during the war on the grounds of expense. Of course he could not countenance such a thing. It would be false economy. The reduction of expenditure in this and other matters like primary education would mean that tho children of workers, among others, would be deprived of benelits they should receive. The workers were sharing but little iv the prosperity of the country, which it was alleged was duo to the war; and though it was impossible to direct that some of the wealth which, it was said had' heen derived by "woolkings" and others, iuto the pockets of tlie workers, the least we could do was to see that, the health and education of the children were looked after and promoted. J

.Mure money, said .Mr llaiian, u;<x wauled, and there was im reason why tliose who had benefited greatly iii this country an a result of thoYvar .'.liould not contribute a little more to thy most of the government of this Dominion, so that national needs, in the direction indicated, should not be menaced.