POVERTY FOR ALL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 8 April 1908, Page 8

POVERTY FOR ALL.

IF THE NATION'S WEALTH WERE

SHARED.

One of the prevalent delusions is that if the nation's wealth were to be equally divided' it would provide a comfortable income for all.

Four acute statisticians, who have been calculating what each inhabitant would receive, confessed themselves astonished, at a meeting of the Royal Statistical' Society, at the result of their investigations. In. place of comfort and ease each member of society would have to eke out a lean living on the daily pittance of a few coppers. Briefly stated, the figures arrived at by these four statisticians — Mr Chiozza Money, M.P., Mr Bernard Mallet, Mr W. J. Harris, and Mr W. H. Baileyfine themselves down, when reduced to the limit of a daily income, as derived from investment, to the following meagre sums: — Mr W. H. Bailey 9d per day Mr Chiozza Money, M.P. ... 8d per day Mr- W. J. Harris v . Sdperday Mr Bernard Mallet ../ ... 4}dperday Mr Mallet's estimate, delivered almost apologetically in the course of the proceedings, was a new one. "It only shows us," declared a humorist who was present, "that hard work must still be our portion."

BEE OINTMENT.

CHILDREN CRY FOR IT.

V One of the greatest proofs of Bee Oint,jhent as a healing remedy was lately brought before the Proprietary. Tt was in the WairaTapa district that a child of '-three years was .observed to strike its •Bnjrer bad^y, TWith a hammer. The Wood oozed the , dimpled digit; dark and black, and 'youngster fled to its mother trying/ "Bee, Bee, give me Bee!" -The mother instintly came ont and botfnd up the' wound, with Bee Ointment on a piece of ; cotton cloth; the child went oh contentedly playing as if nothing was the matter with it; The mother' explained . that she had' always kept Bee Ointment that it .was a household word .in the home. "Fathers, ntotheps," all of you " 'who' : are bringing up families, remember the ailment's and injuries which frmy beset* your little children, and be forearmed. Keep , Bee Ointment in your horiee Jqr j&U r <rnk, j brniaes. akin, dise«afß;%TOfe^ipmatißm^J