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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17949, 29 November 1932, Page 9

“I wonder why parents don t teach their children to cook?” remarked Mr. J. T. Mowat, secretary of the Relic! Committee, io a. Marlborough Express representative recently, in advancing the information that at present he cou.d place 10 girls in positions at good wages —up to 30s per week—if they could cook; but none of the girls on his list could iili the requirement.

Miss Nolle Scanlau, the New Zealand writer, Who lias returned to the Dominion for a brief visit, was. enabled some months ago to visit Russia. She was shown only what the Soviet officials wanted her to see, and had to Hike their word for many tilings. The people were taught that the accomplishment of the Five Year Plan meant the realisation of Heaven now; they were told not to wait for the hereafter,' and all religion was ridiculed. Their god was a radiant youth driving a tractor; that was the god of tho future, and magnates, tho clergy, and all such people were represented as hindrances to the attainment of that object. “Of course,” sho said, “there is no real freedom in Russia; they have only changed one set of masters for another, and they still have human nature’to- reckon with in their problems.”