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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 24 July 1935, Page 6

Speaking to a reporter on his return from the East, Major J. R. Kirk, M.8.E., said that in the maze of political and economic theories of to-day one was apt to get lost. There was a practical Japanese experiment, the value of which each one must judge for himself, although, no doubt, all would wish that New Zealand legislators would fry it immediately. The story was that Nintoku Tenno, sixteenth Emperor, a, Mikado of great tenderness of heart and wonderful practical statesmanship, observing the conditions of poverty among his people —few chimneys smoking—declared a tax holiday for three years, and did not allow his officers to reimpose the taxes for this period. At the end of the three years, going to the roof of his palace one morning and seeing the smoke rising from every house, he declared: “I have become rich; the wealth of the people is the wealth of t.heir sovereign.”

An outstanding programme has been organised by the Plunket nurse at Hawera, Miss J. McCall, and Mrs W. G. Simpson, for the annual Plunket nurse’s concert, which will be held at Foresters’ Hall, Hawera, on Friday. The programme will include numbers by children’s choirs, conducted by Miss W. Huggins, Miss Ings and Mr. G. H. Percy. Miss Stock’s pupils will appear in dance numbers. The aim of the concert is to maintain contact with mothers and children.