NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 73, 21 June 1928, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

NOTES FROM ‘ALL PARTS."

THE DOIVSJNION DAY BY DAY Amalgamation. Mr W. Coodfellow, chairman of ’directors of the ' New Zealand Cooperative Dairy Company, is of the opinion that Sir George Elliot’s ad- | vice to amalgamate the Meat and Dairy Control Boards is worthy of serious consideration. The Dairy Board, as now constituted, is. he says, costly and cumbersome, and amalgamation would give the dairy industry adequate service in regard to shipping, insurance, advertising, and the supervision of cold storage at comparatively small cost. « » Professional Status. “Accountancy is now a profession and an accountant has learned to charge up a fee just as,large as that of the doctor or lawyer,” said Mr

L. L, Cordery at a meeting on Saturday evening of the Christchurch Hardware Mediants’ Association.

“If an accountant does not possess a degee or similar qualification today, he has little chance In business. The accountant of the past, with old routine methods, would be forced now to go out into the yard with a shovel to obtain employment. Accountancy as with other branches of business, has made remarkable progress, and the diploma is now a valuable asset.” * *. Waikato Diocese. Following the intimation given the Chapter of St. Peter’s" Cathedral by Dean Barnett, that the form of services is a matter for the clergy alone to decide, the" Chapter has sent a circular to parishioners, painting out that the stipends of clergy employed in the parish total about £IOO a month and that about half this amount is received in the form of collections. Other expenses have also to be .m teeA shrd’u vbgkqa also to be met. At present, the Chapter states, there is a deficiency of £2OO in the parish finances. An urgent appeal is made for help, and it is pointed out that unless additional funds are forthcoming the services of one or both the ssistant clergy will have to be dispensed with. ‘ Parishioners are invited, if there are any reasons why they cannot respond to the appeal, to state those reasons. * * 6 Leifs be Free!” A new league has been formed in Wellington—the Liberty League. “And it is high time, too,” said one of the foundation members to a pressman. “You will agree that it is time the people of this Dominion demanded that a halt should be called to the filching of personal liberties and the rights of the individual, which has been going on

in this country for many years past. “The Liberty League, which we hope will consist of tens of thousands of members from Three Kings to Stewart Island, will consist of people who value liberty—decent, sensible liberty—freedom to express our own

thoughts, freedom to come and go, to cross the road, freedom to buy and sell at any time or place without restriction, freedom to eat and drink what we like, freedom to sing, dance and be happy, freedom to own our own goods, land, money and property in peace. “The Liberty League,” he concluded, has been expressly formed to oppose and thwart the spirit of intolerance -which has become all to rampant in this country.” IP # Motor* Accidents: A Solution. “Our highways in New Zealand ar e being improved,” says Sir Robert Stout in the New Zealand Railways Magazine. “We have now many miles of concrete roads and roads formed with smooth surfaces. We have also, unfortunately, on these and on our other highways (because of too quickly running motor-cars and carelessly managed machines), very numerous accidents. The sacrifice of human life causes us concern. What will have to he done? Will we Have to limit our motors fco special roads? We have special footpaths in cities for pedestrians; or slow moving vehicles, into which thoroughfares no motor or machinedriven conveyance is admitted? Will conveyance iji the air be so increased that even motors will be hard pressed to withstand competition in that direction? Who can predict the changes that will have come regarding our trasport of men and and goods. But this we know: Wq are better off as a people than our pioneers or even the setlers in he ’sevenies.”