NOTES AND COMMENTS

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4590, 16 May 1922, Page 2

NOTES AND COMMENTS

The Jewish Race. New Zcalanders have a more legitimate call than that in circulation for months past in favour of the starving .Russians. There is now a well authorised appeal to help the victims of the Bolsheviks—the starving Jews of Eastern Europe. There are over 100,000'homeless orphans in that portion of Jewry. It will surprise many of our readers to learn that the latest Jewish Year Book gives the number of. Hebrews in the world at 15,000,000—and they are still scattered, as under the ancient curse, in. all the ends of the earth. He Touches the Spot. In Feilding last week Premier Massey uttered a warning against the drift from the country into the city "We. are a producing country, and we are drifting to a state of affairs which will prove our undoing," said Colonel Mitchell, M.P., R.S.A., "Dining the last 10 years, including the national increase, 220,000 persons have been brought into the country, yet 177,000 of these have, been absorbed by the borough," ho continued. "We have gone slow as a nation by reason of the fact that we have not settled the country districts. We have loaded up the towns and cities, thus making for an unsettled population. - By filling up the towns and cities we create a dangerous state of affairs. Unemployment ensues, and , we get the revolutionary and extreme laboar tvpe coming to the fore. The •o.intry will surelv suffer on account ot this policy."/ New Zealand's statesmen should always look shar.ply upon aggregating centres of population.