ALL BLACKS’ TOUR

Taranaki Daily News, 8 November 1935, Page 7

ALL BLACKS’ TOUR

ENTERTAINMENT AT LONDON. TEAM FEELING THE STRAIN. By Telegraph—Press Assn.— Copyright London, Nov. (>. Tire AH Blacks are feeling the strain of the entertainment at. London, They are seldom in bed before midnight. Twenty visited Smithfield at dawn. Hore, who is a butcher, dressed a sheep, and the experts congratulated him on his craftsmanship. The team will attend “The Wind and the Rain” to-night, the play written by a New Zealander, Dr, Merton Hodge, which is still having a successful run In the West End. The manager, Mr. V. R. Meredith, and non-players will visit Brockenhurst and go to Bournemouth on Saturday to place a wreath in the New Zealand soldiers cemetery. McLean’s injury is more serious than at first thought and he may miss a number of games. .

A voice: Preferential voting? You’ll find out! Mr. Sheat: I am not afraid of what I shall find out. I’ve stood and been knocked down before. . . A woman’s voice: And will be knocked down again, Mr. Sheat: And come up smiling. He said he believed Parliamentary re’ form was necessary. He .believed that the Legislative Council had contributed nothing of legislative value recently to the government of the country, A voice: What about the Alsatian Dogs Bill? Mr. Sheat: That was only because one of,the old gentlemen of the Council got bitten! I believe a strong case can be made out for the abolition of the council. It would be sound economy. A further reform advocated was the appointment of Cabinet by election by members of Parliament. The present system, Mr. Sheat stated, was open to abuse. He advocated a complete overhaul of unemployment legislation, He believed in the abolition of the Unemployment Board. If the best man in the House were appointed Minister of Employment, that man could surely lay down a policy, subject to the approval of the House, which would i adequate to meet the problem. Finally, Mr. Sheat advocated a drastic curtailment of the subsidy system, There were many instances of money being given to people who did not need it and could well afford to pay out of their own . pockets for the work they weie claiming and collecting subsidy on, One of the world’s wealthiest insurance companies had recently received £17,000 in subsidy and there were numerous smaller instances. A system of subsidised labour threw the true employment right out of gear. The No. 5 scheme was “rotten ripe” for scrapping. It threatened to become the “national industry.” Local bodies, he alleged, abused the scheme and abused it with the connivance of the Unemployment Board- If the money frittered away in this fash’ ion had been put.into useful industries far more goocT would have been done, He did not, however, believe in spoonfeeding industries that could not stand on their own feet. Sometimes money was used thus that could be given with profit to industries which really needed assistance.

In a final attack on the Labour Party Mr. Sheat said he wished to warn Mr. Frost that the time would come when he would have the choice between saving his political skin and saving his political soul. Mr. Shcat answered a number of questions relating to subjects as widely varied as State lotteries and free trade, and he and the chairman were accorded a vote of thanks.