MR. POOLE'S IMPRESSIONS OF NEW SOUTH WALES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13147, 9 April 1906, Page 6

MR. POOLE'S IMPRESSIONS OF NEW SOUTH WALES.

This unfortunate country is continually in a condition of having its ills looked into by political doctors (says the Sydney Daily Telegraph). "Ah, says one, having looked at the country's tongue, " you have a bad attack of socialism ; 'twill be well for you to lay up and avoid any further communication with those who are affected." "So!" { says another, "you are eaten up with conservatism! Take a course of my patent knowledge pills!" and another, "Ha,! my young friend, you have been run over by tho Omnibus of Capital— you want is a dozen boxes of my new elixir." So it goes on. Mr. C. H. Poole, a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives, has his opinion also of this country's political health. "During"my stay here of some weeks," ho said to a Daily Telegraph representative, "1 have been studying the Labour question, the Trust question, the Criminal question, and other questions, so j a.5 to get familiar with conditions that conj trol society here, and I find that the liquor t traffic is playing a detrimental part in the operations of the people towards a successful solution of these problems. The power of labour is reduced by over-indulgence in liquor by the ■workers : the liquor trust is the biggest trust of all; and the criminal class is largely recruited from the clients of the publie-houees. New South Wales is in a most promising commercial stale, and surely this is the time for the best people of the country to move for the reduction to a minimum of the evils that militate against complete colonial success." Mr. Poole considers that the annihilation of the liquor traffic in New South Wales will be a tremendous undertaking. The new local option poll, to be taken shortly, would enable the Reform party to feel its strength for the first time. Considerable enthusiasm has been aroused already amongst a certain section of the community, and this would be increased by systematic distributions of literature and platform work.