OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2006, 23 December 1921, Page 4

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

The workers, though ever seeking to pose as a class apart from the rest of tlie community, cannot escape their share in the general interest, and they cannot remain in permanent enjoyment of high wages and prosperity \,nile the rest of the public, is suffering. from the effects of low markets and financial stringency. The greatest lesson that Labour has to learn appears to be that work and then more work is the cure for depression. —Christchurch "Press." The cat seems to bo out of the bag in regard to the meat pool. Mr Massey admitted last night that the scheme arose out of the difficulty he has got into over Armour and Co's license. Finding his position untenable, he proposes to extricate himself by assuming on behalf of the Government the entire responsibility for controlling, shipping and marketing New Zealand meat. It seems rather a serious and expensive alternative to giving the producer the benefit of American buying competition, but in politics, as in cricket, it is the unexpected that happens, with the difference that you can usually trust men who play cricket —and very few of them are politicians.—Christchurch "Sun."