NAIVE AND UNTRAINED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 285, 5 November 1925, Page 7

NAIVE AND UNTRAINED.

SPACE LOVING NEW ZEALANDERS. LONDON, Nov. 8. Striking statements are made by Constance Clyde in an article in the Empire Review. She suggests that the space-loving people of New Zealand qre more naive and untrained than the Britons, that they lose the love of personal freedom and submit to a reversion to feudal control and interference which would not be tolerated in England, where corrective organisations would apply restraint. Miss Clyde mentions the activities of tho overgrown Public Service, and in this connection cites the proposal to compel unmarried mothers to hand over their offspring to State asylums. She suggests tliau New Zealand has not a native of an alien race to do servile work; therefore, she unconsciously wishes to breed her own race of serfs. The writer alludes to the number of rational children who are kept as State slaves and as mental defectives. She picks out the case of a girl who allegedly bore a child, then was labelled as mentally below par and sent to an institution. Sho alleges that money due to this girl was never spent on her and that the girl now works hard at felling trees. The writer states there is a further instance of a return to the old barbarism in the Education Department’s proposal that illegitimate children should become its property, liable to be handed over to either parent or to a State institution.—A. and N.Z. cable.