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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15900, 11 April 1912, Page 8

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“Another New Brighton Resident” suggests that tlio Mayor of New Brighton should call a meeting of residents to consider the question of bringing their suburb into Greater Christchurch. “E.P.” writes:—“ Tt behoves tho Liberal Party to recognise the vast amount of work done in Canterbury to bring t-lie cheap money scheme before tho Government and the general public. Without such work there would nave been no Advances to Settlers Act and possibly no Seddon-Ward Administration.”

“A Mug” sends a. warning to the general public. He noticed in the daily papers recently an advertisement from a Wellington firm stating that on receipt of 3s they would forward a pair of lady’s or gentlemen’s boots by return mail and trust to tho honesty of purchasers to send tho balance in instalments of Is per weak for sixteen weeks. Ho forwarded three shillings, expecting to receive his boots within two or three days, but instead received a letter from the firm stating that the boots would not be forwarded until the final payment had been made.

F. C. Fowler thinks that if tho Rev W. G. Taylor had been desirous of understanding the principles of the suffrage question in the Old Country lie conic! have used his time with greater benefit to himself while in London by going to the various mootings held there every week, where he would have seen and heard a. Suffragette. Also, if he had bought a copy of “ Votes for Women ” lie might have spoken in quite a different way regarding the movement for woman’s emancipation. R. Dalmer, in reply to Colonel Boll’s assertion that military training will uplift the national character, quotes the following statement of a member of tho Nationalist. Party in the French Parliament — “Compulsory military service, far from being :t school of morals, is a school of drunkenness, idleness and debauchery. . It has gone a long way towards ruining our peasantry, and to a. largo extent it has already debased thetn. I doom, the universal military service ono of the greatest, as it is sometimes one of the saddest sacrifices our country calls on us to hear.” “ Keroi ” asserts that the “survival of the fittest” has gone out of date; it is the cutest mani who goto along best in these days, the one who makes stepping Monos of his friends and thinks of the welfare of no one but himself.