THE PRICE OF MEAT.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4381, 4 March 1909, Page 3

THE PRICE OF MEAT.

(To the Editor.)

SlB, —I must say I am thankful to “ Cheap Meat,” for making us acquainted with the prices charged for meat in the Waikato, but I take strong exception to the footnote that the prices charged by Te Archa butchers are anything like as cheap. Get a price list from them and publish it and you will see. We want more opposition, cheaper and better meat. —I am, etc ,

“ Cheaper Meat.”

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —The following passages, taken from the “ London Daily Chronicle ” report of Mr Winston Churchill’s Birmingham speech, may be of interest to those whose knowledge of Home politics depends upon biassed cable reports and comments thereupon by such papers as the New Zealand Herald. Speaking of the House of Lords, Mr Churchill said “ The House of Lords can prevent the trams running over Westminister Bridge ; but it cannot prevent a declaration of war. It can reject a Bill prohibiting foreign workmen • being brought in to break a British strike ; it cannot amend a Bill to give old age pensions to 600,000 people. It can thwart a Government in the minute details of its legislation ;* it cannot touch the whole vast business of finance. It can refuse a cons'itution to Ireland, but not, luckily, to Africa. In destroying the Education Bill of 1906 the House of Lords asserted its right to resist the opinion of a majority of 309 members of the House of Commons, fresh from election, upon a subject which had been one of the most promiuent issues of the election. In rejecting the Licensing Bill of 1908 it has paraded its utter unconcern for Ihe moral welfare of the mass of our fellow-countrymen.” ’‘No one can say that we (the Liberal party) have been powerless in the past. The trade unionist, as he surveys the progress of his organisation, the miner as the cage brings him to the surface, the aged pensioner when he visits the Post Office ■with his cheque-book, the Irish Catholic whose son sees the ranges of a university career thrown open, the child who is protected in his home and in the street, the peasant who desires to acquire a share of the soil he tills, the youthful offenders in the prison, the citizen as he takes his seat on the county bench, the servant who is injured in domestic service, all erive the lie to that.” It was in South Africa that we were most of all opposed and distrusted, and, by a singular diversion it is in South Africa that the most brilliant and memorable results have been achieved. Indeed I think that the gift of the Transvaal and Orange River Constitutions., and the great settlement resulting therefrom, will he by itself sufficient to vindicate in the eyes of future generations the administration of Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman, and to dignify his memory in Parliaments and periods which we shall not see.” “We may look in India for a greater sense of confidence and solidity between the people and the Government. We shall salute the sunrise of a United South Africa, and in Europe I trust Sir Edward Grey will crown his work at the Foreign Office by establishing a better and kindlier feeling between the British and the German peoples.”—l am, etc.,

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