FEILDING

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1686, 22 June 1904, Page 26

FEILDING

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

Our general rate has popped up to 3d, so I presume it is proof that Feilding is rising in the world. When the loan rate, with other trifling additions for library, etc., is added, I expect there will be some squealing. I have just seen a telegram from Greymouth notifying the death of a bright young man who was an only son and developing a genius for engineering. The cause of death was attributable to an, injury in the football fieldi. It is commonly looked upon as cowardly or unmanly to notice accidents at football, and in consequence those brutes who* predetermine to maim tbeir antagonists, as the easiest way of winning, are shielded by public sentiment-. A list of those injured for life or death at football would be an interesting return to ask for. A little book, by a citizen of yours, called “The Fertility .of the Unfit,” is at the present time attracting extraordinary attention. This is no place for a critique upon it. and I expect it will appeal to a wider field at Heme, but as eome of the facts are startling, I will just obtrude one: —“A woman, who was a thief, a drunkard and a tramp for forty years of her life, had 834 descendants, 709 of whom were traced; 106 were born out of wedlock, 14? were beggars and 64 lived on charity. Of the women 181 lived disreputable lives, There were in the family 76 convicts, 7 being for murders. In 75 years this family cost their country in almshouses, trials,, courts, prisons, etc., £250,000! The injury to persons and property by this one family were simply incalculable.” “Verb £ap.” The moral of the book is that by a simple piece of surgery all this would have been saved.

Our sporting community openly deride the statement that there is a horse in the north capable of carrying at his work 3Oolbs of weight other than his own. Another conundrum is , Why does bread keep up when flour goes down, unless it be largely made of something else?” The Health Inspector might take a few samples in his spare time and learn something.