OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLII, Issue 1808, 5 May 1921, Page 4

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

Ivo one who knows anything of the Government's finances will blamo the Minister of Education for declining ao many of the requests that are made to him to provide money for new or bigger schools or more spacious playgrounds. He cannot perform impossibilities. But that is no reason why children should continue to suffer through being herded together in rooms never intended to hold more than half the number, nor would such a state of affairs continue if parents would learn to help themselves, instead of leaning on the Government for everything.— Cliristchurck "Press."

Should not the miners realise their obligations to society? The coal is there in ample quantities, but the miners keep the community on such short commons that a great deal has to be imported. This is economic waste. With such natural resources as New Zealand possesses, there should be no need for any importation. Since the miners, working their present hours, fail to produce supplies anywhere near equalling the demand, it is not likely that the public will move strongly for the further reduction of output, which would certainly accompany the halving of the working day—unless many more miners become available, and the increased number speed up their methods very considerably.—Dunedin "Star."