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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13291, 29 January 1914, Page 8

Says the Wellington Post : Daily Wellinjgton's citizens sec natives of India beside fruit barrows m the streets. These colored .retailers do not lioisily obtrude their presence. They wait silently for their customers, and their behavibur is altogether so quiet that tho public takes very little notice of them, except to buy goods occasionally from the British subjects 6'f. Asia, this ihoffensiveness of boys" ha. been counted to their credit, and yet it is a' perilons peacefulness., The prd-erly conduct m the streets . and elsewhere may disarm criticism "and easily reconcile the public to this alien element. Jt there -were something palpably obnoxious, the "people woii'ld promptly force Parliament' to justify its existence, but the Indians do not ■* provide any such incentive to drastic decrees by will of the people. k Yct tliose who have a real zeal for n white New Zealand have to be alert, and they have to steel themselves against any sentiment which may bone-fit persons of another race, at the cost of th? European. Although a poll to raiso a £25,000 water works loan was carried over a year ago, the Dargaville Borough Council has been unable to acquire any portion of the sum. A request made, to the Advances Office was refused, and every application -made to the. several banks and insurance companies has met with a like fate. The reason . the loan companies had to decline the advance was due to the statutory rate of *S per cent, interest being too low for their requirements. The position to-day is lamentable, for iii a borough population of close on 2000 there is an acute shortage of water, which is being sold at Id per gallon. • In the previous two summers there was a similar shortage, "but this year the position is being, accentuated- In another week the bulk of the tanks • attached to residences will, b^ empty. In the meantime all bath-rooms are closed, and exceptional cafe is being taken against any waste. i Speaking of the Panama Exhibition, to oe held at San Francisco next year, the Prime Minister (Right Hon. W. F. Massey) writes: — "The Government has decided that the Dominion shall bp represented at the Exhibition, ami we are going to ask tho assistance ofNtll the people interested m our primary products to m£ke the exhibit worthy of the Dominion. Wo are going, to ask that produce for exhibit shall be sent forward, .and the Government will take charge of it, and §ac that it is 'properly displayed. We p-rppose to undertake also to dispone of the produce to the best- advantage after, the Exhibition is over. We are anxious to make a particularly good display of those articles produced in— New Zealand for which there .is^ now a market m the States, such as cheese, butter, wool, frozen meat and £aX. W6 have under consideration the setting up of an honorary board to assist us m. making, arrangements for the collecting of, produce for the exhibit,, and an officer of the Department of Industries and Commerce will bo detailed, to attend' to, correspondence and such matters relating to the Exhibition."