VIRTUE IN HUMAN NATURE

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3850, 5 October 1932, Page 4

VIRTUE IN HUMAN NATURE

Some months ago the Government caused tet be set up a dezen committees covering the whole of the rural areas of the Dominion to advise the Supreme Court on cases hardship with regard-to men on the land. Those committees have been working hard, t<; overtake the ma.ny cases that have been sent in. hut- as the work i s done iu camera no stir has been, made in the papers about, the good tlto committees are doing and the splendid service the men who are on, those committees are rendering the country at largo. They are all men of probity and prominence and they must he getting results or they would not waste their time and talents for they travel much, sit °ng hours and are under constant strain. Tn both islands they have succeeded in many cases of disputes between mortgagor and mortgagee without appealing to tlto Supreme Court. For sweet reasonableness Inis prevailed itl. the main and it has been found that there is much virtue in. human, nature- There arc some Shvloteks abroad, but 01, ly a, few who still demand their pound of ffesh from those to; whom they have loaned money. The Governmomtb recently set np additional Committees in the cities to- deal with the differences between shopkeepers and landlords, and here again those in adversity have found a sweet reasonableness through the intervention of t,h,o Committees that has been as refreshing as it ha s proved helpful and «nCOiiragtDgj j