WOODLANDS NOTES

Southland Times, Issue 22038, 10 June 1933, Page 7

WOODLANDS NOTES

LITERARY AND DEBATING CLUB. (From Our Correspondent.) The usual fortnightly meeting of the Debating Club was held on Tuesday evening. Mr E. Hargest presided over a fair attendance of members. An impromptu debate was held. The subject was “That married men should not be required to go into unemployment

camps.” Mr S. G. August in opening the debate for the affirmative stated that the British Empire was founded on home life. If married men were to be sent to unemployment camps it would mean that there would be untold hardships in the home. Mr Tosach, leader of the negative, maintained that if the present conditions continued with low prices for primary products and scarcity of jobs, the only outlet was to send married men into camps.

Mr J. Middlemiss, speaking for the affirmative, said that if married men were put ’nto camps their wifes and children would have to be put in camps also. Mr W. Bell, supporting the negative, spoke of the pioneers who came out to this country and had to live in a camp to start with. The contractors who took their teams of horses to go out contracting had spent many months away from their homes in camps. Mr E. Hargest (affirmative) spoke of the big part a father played in the

home In the training of the children. Mr A. J. Bannister (negative) reminded his audience of the early days when the railways were being built when married men helping in the construction had to live in camps. It would be better to put married men in camps than chipping the grass off the side of the streets. Tlie judge, Mr C. J. Bigwood, in giving his decision, declared the debate a draw. A vote of thanks was passed to the judge and to Miss M. Kane, who acted

as chaijlady during the debate. The Weather. The rainfall registered at Woodlands for the month of May was 5.67 inches for 20 days’ rain. Rain fell every day from the beginning of the month to the 17th instant. The greatest fall was on the 14th, when 1.30 inches fell. A few mild frosts were experienced towards the end of the month. The total fall for the year to date is 28.15 inches.