WHEN THE RUB COMES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2194, 25 September 1907, Page 2

WHEN THE RUB COMES.

Tho proof of the pudding is not always in the eating, but in tho digesting. In this respect, Puddings and Milking Machines are very much alike. It is easy to consume a pudding. or instal a milking machine, hut the rub comes when you have to digest tho putting or continue to use the milking machine, if it proves unsatisfactory. There need not be any hesitation about purchasing tho “L.K.G.” Milking Machine, as dozens of practical men have given if the highest praise after using it continuously for three, four, and five years. —MacEwans, Ltd., Fort Street, Auckland.

There is at prosont a great dearth of labor for farm work (says tho Taranaki Nows). Town workers do not care to stir out of tho towns in quest of occupation, or to take it when offered. An offer of £2 a week and “tucker” to bushfollors was refused, although about four months’ work was guaranteed. “We’re going too fast,” said a member of tho Auckland Trades and Labor Council at a recent meeting. “I’eoplc say the country can’t go down bocause it is so prosperous. But it will go down, and wo must see hard times. Wo must put tho brake on expenditure.” The warning was apropos of a suggestion that old age pensions should bo increased from 10s to 12s 6d per weok.

An interesting point ib raisod by “Lex,” who writes to tho Wellington Post:—“Tho 26tli Soptembor is to bo proclaimed a public holiday to celebrate ‘Dominion Day.’ Tho cablegram states that the Ordor-in-Council is to take effect from Soptembor 26th; tho legal construction is that ‘from a certan date is exclusive of that day,’ therefore September 27 is the first day Now Zealand will bo a Dominion.”

The last people in the world who might be expected to object to having a holiday are the workers, says a recent issue of tho N.Z. Herald. Apparently, however, tho final limit of their requirements in that direction has, in Auckland at least, been reached. A perfect chorus of disapproval was showered upon the proposal to add Dominion Day to the list of holidays when it was discussed dy the Trades and Labor Council, and a resolution of protest was carried. It appears that the labor man objects altogether to having to “lose a day’s work and dance to ‘Joey’ Ward’s music.” The Premier (the degree “glorious” was conferred upon him by one speaker) was twitted with being put to the necessity of working tho people up into a state of excitement over his “great, surprise” (the change of name from colony to dominion) “which nobody look a bit of notice of.” Dominion Day by another indignant delegate was designated “a tin-pot jingle thing,” and only one man m the room announced himself as a patriot and a holiday-maker, and his self-revela-tion was greeted with ironical laughter.