HOLDINGS FOR UNEMPLOYED.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 June 1932, Page 2

HOLDINGS FOR UNEMPLOYED.

(To the Editor.) iSir, —Re the danger to farmers and the stern necessity of maintaining the high standard of cleanliness...of the dairying and other food producing industries of this country, the fact that New Zealand has the lowest rate of infant mortality in the world stands as a monument to the splendid work of our pioneers and the grand race they sprang from. Take also . the fact of the prevalence of foot and mouth disease in foreign countries. It is not uncommon for English wharf workers to die from the effects of handling foreign hides, whereas, comparatively speaking, you could eat New Zealand hides.with safety. That is a prestige worth more than money can buy, but we soon lose it if arrant'wasters are .brought on to the land such as he who left his wife and children to do the work of thre? men in running a dairy of 70 odd cowfe in addition to the housework andthe getting of the children to school, which renders it impossible for a woman to maintain the necessary standard of cleanliness in the cowshed or..perforin the sacred office of mother in the home. I put it to the Christiana of every

denomination (hat are we. not corrcc . in assuming that, the temple of each and every individual human being within our Empire is sacred? That being so does it not follow that the Enipne i* a, temple of temples, one. of the most sacred of temples? Was it not around its walls and defending its gates that our soldiers fought four years of the most bloody war in the worlds history? Would' not the sacrifice of Jesus ot Nazareth and that oi our soldict s be a hideous mockery if "c stood by and allowed the only sacred creatures on earth, namely, our kindred here or in the Homeland, for whom the stupendous sacrifice was made, to he desecrated by a. paralysing disease merely for the piofit on a packet or two of cigarettes or for the individuals who would sacrifice us all merely for their pleasure in suckin" nicotine dope from a cigarette? Of the city fathers I would respectfully ask, Why is it that all those commodities essential to the comforts of a beautiful home arc all stored in the windows in your streets, yet denied to our hard-toiling mothers even when men’s wages were at their highest? I am, etc., C. WESLEY, Opunake, June 7, 1932.