SHAMEFUL.

Observer, Volume XL, Issue 11, 15 November 1919, Page 22

SHAMEFUL.

Two pretty girls met in the street and kissed each other. Two young men watched the meeting. "There's another of those things that's so iinfair," said one. "What is that?" said the friend. "Women doing men's work." <® <® <& But there has never been an electoral reform bill passed without n "stonewall," so that beforte Sir Joseph Ward can persuade Parliament to acoept a system of compulsory voting it will be necessary for him to devise compulsory powers to secure the attendance of members at the debates upon his projects. In the circumstances, the elections will be decided on the tifme-honouned single ballot system, and our contemporary's conclusion is that as the country will evidently have a clear choice between practical and visionary policies, the result should be a fairly close approximation to majority representation .—--Wanganu i "Chronicle."