The Waipawa Mail Published Tuersdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Tuesday, December 16, 1918. THE SEDGWICK LADS.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXV, Issue 6129, 16 December 1913, Page 2

The Waipawa Mail Published Tuersdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Tuesday, December 16, 1918. THE SEDGWICK LADS.

One of tbe most hopeful phases of the Imperial migration movement is the increasing attention whieh is being given to the settlement of lads from tbe cities of the mother oountry in the rural districts of tbe Dominions. The movement is calculated to benefit the boys, who are assisted to migrate from one part of the Empire to another, and it is of undoubted advantage to the Dominions. One of the most disquieting features of tbe industrial life of tbe orowded cities of the United Kingdom is the 11 blind-alley " character of the employment which is offered to tbe boys and girls. Tbe lads, as soon as the period of attendance at the elementary sobool is passed, are placed in some meohanical work which offers no opportunity for training, or the acquisition of skill, or the stimulation of intelligence or adaptability. At seventeen or eighteen years of age they are dismissed, and, too often, thrown on the industrial scrap-heap, ultimately to swell the ranks of the unemployed or unemployable. These youthful citizens of the Empire are potentially desirable units of any community, and, if they are taken in hand at a sufficiently early age, they may beoome (as experience shows they do become) virile, industrious, healthy-minded, and healthybodied workers. The low wages, long hours, and precarious character of many branches of industry in the mother country do not tend to produce efficient workers; congested mephitic slums are not calculated to produce a healthy physique. In the wheat fields, dairy farms, and orchards of the new lands both these deficiencies can be supplied. We need the labour of these lads, and they will be the more valuable if they come to us early in life, whilst their minds and bodies are still plastic in order that they may become acclimatised to colonial life before their habits are too rigidly formed. Mr T. E. Bedgwiok, of London, who has done so much to encourage boy migration to the Dominions, has put forward a soheme of apprenticeship which has muoh to commend it. It ensures government supervision with regard to the conditions of labour, assistance in fares, and an adequate selection of both boys and employers. It has been found to work admirably in New Zealand, and the South Australian Government has decided to adopt it. Victoria has also initiated a vigorous policy of boy migration, and there seems to have been a real awakening with regard to the possibilities of the whole subjeot. We express the hope that, whatever Government is in power, and whatever else is done with regard to migration to this Dominion, the question of these lads will be taken up seriously. Both the supply and the demand exist in ample measure, and the expenditure in work of this kind is reproductive, for lasting assets to the State are thereby obtained. It needs only Government assistance to facilitate the journey of the lads and prevent their exploitation here in order that doubtful assets to the mother oountry may be converted into successful settlers in this country, which needs the brains and muscle and intelligence of human beings above all things.

A report of a garden fete at Orua wharo apd cable news will be fouod on the fir.t pajje Tbe sa-ial “ The Garden of Love " ia continued on the fourth.

A grant of £2OO for the Mangaonuku bridge appear! on the Supplementary Estimate!.

Two earthquake shocks in quick suo oessioo, oaused some alarm on Sunday afternoon. Mr T. Williams draws attention to hie large stock of goods suitable for Christ mas presents. Mr Alfred A. Eames, who is wellknown in Waipawa, sends us sd artistic calendar for 1914 from Waverley. The continuous rain is haviDg effect on ths crops on the plains. In tome instances they have b an beaten down. The longest session in tbe history of the New Zealand Pari ament came to an end at 11.35 yesterday. It is commonly reported that one Wellington firm was fortunate in reoeiv ing almost the whole of the consignment of dried fruits which arrived from Byd ney by the Maunganui last week A man named Owen Staoe, a carrier, who resided with his wife and family at 48 Randolp street, Woolston, committed suicide yesterday morning by hanging himealf from a tree in the domain near New Brighton rececout'se. A meeting of the Waipawa Dramatic Club will be held in the Municipal Hall, at- 8 pm, to morrow. Amongst the business to be considered are invitations to stage 11 Swset Lavender ” at Waipukurau, in aid of the District Hospital, and at Otane, in aid of the Crioket Club.

“ I have long been impressed with tbe value of fruit as food, 1 ’ Dr Ba-ja field told the Tasmanian Fruitgrower,’ Union last week “ That wss really the origin of my orchard. I cams to the conclusion that I could do people more good by growing spiles and pears thin by distributing physic ” A New Zealander, Mr R. O. Webb, is at present visiting England and the Oon tinent in connection with the proposed establishment of wood-pulp and paper making mills in New Zealand. Writing to a friend in Hokitika he states that he expects to return early next year with the results of bulk taste now being made of different speoies of New Zealand timbers.

On Thursday the Greymouth breuob of the National Bank of New Zealand shipped to Cbristchurob, per overland route by special craob, fifteen sealed boxes bf bullion, containing 11,5930 z, valued at £46,704 19s 6d. The ship ment was made UDder special escort, and wss placed aboard a steamer for mintage in Australia.

11 We do a lot of buying,” remarked a prominent business man at a meeting in Auckland last werk, “ and we are as loyal to New Zealand manufaotu ers as we possibly oan be. But we fi id, for iustanoe, that we can buy one artie'e made up in London for less money than it would oost for labour alone in New Zealand.”

An amendment of the reflations in regard to ties places io secondary end district high schools, which was gazetted lest week, validates a reoeot resolution of tbs Wellington Oollsge Gove-nors, giving precedence of admis aion to the Girls' College to pupila not over thirteen on December Ist who had obtained proficiency certificates, and cext to those who were under fourte m years on December Ist

The Hon H D. Bell announoed in the Legislative Council last week that the tender had been signed for the new Parliamentary Buildiogs. The oontrao tors are Haoify, Miles, and Hsrdy, of Christchurch. The amount is £101,639, and ths contract is to be fioisLed about Dsoember 12th, 1913 The material to be used is briok, faced with OoromaDdel granito up to 15 feet from the ground, and grey and white mirb'efrom Sa- dy Bay (Nelson) for the rett of the struc tore The portion included io tbe oontraot is 228 ft foog aud 247 broad, and tbe height varies from 52 to 64ft. There is premi e of an extraordinarily good orop of grass seed being garnered this harvest in Ashburton County, says the Guardian It is a little early yet to forecast what the clover seed yield will be like, as it depends largely ou the operation of tbe b- 05 At times an apparently tip top yield of olover gives but a poor yield whan it has not beau sufficiently well worked by the bees Some consider that this difficulty will be got over by the planting of less ex tensive areas. They do not mean to sow less olover, but for the areas to be smaller and more numerous.

Writing to the Chrutchurch Star a labour leader says:—“To show that there a-o some sensible persons in this Dominion, we wish to report that wa have reoeived a letter from a gentleman who is prepared to errange for the ex peoditure of £IO,OOO for tbe purpose of purohesieg land for settlement. He has made an offer giviog to eaoh married man at present on atrike fifteen aeres oi land free of oharge, the only oondition being that they should remain upon ths land, and they should havo no power to sell the land in the eveot of their Itaviog tbe settlement.”

At a meeting of tbo Newton Abbot Board of Guardians recently, the reliev ing officer reported the death of an el derly woman, who waa found in a streot in ao exhausted oondition He was arranging for bor funeral, when he found among her papers deeds lelating to a bourn, and among some old tubiooo tics and other rubbish be discovered large sums in gold and silver, in addition to £2O in gold in her bsd clothes, and more money and valuables iu odd oorners 81 o also had hundreds of pounds banko 1 She had lived on a few penoe a day Tbe officer was iestruo'oi to take oharge of the money and affects. New Zealand bids fair to become th® dairymaid of the Empire (remarks an English paper) She is now ao'ually supplying butter and cheese to Oauada, where the population has outstrip, ed the home supply. Consequently, for tf o first time in sixty years, Canada will send no butter to England So wa ahall give our largsr ordera to New Zetland, who already rends us about 30,U00,0001b of butter, with torn of abeem, which briDgs the yearly bill up to about £3,000,000 sterling. Io addition, New Zealand also exports butter and cheese to South Afrioa, India, Fiji, and the South Baa Islands, though the dairying iuduetry began to be developed ooly twenty years ago,

Four children, the youngest of whom was about e'ovao months old, had a narrow esoape from serious injury at Petoue on Sunday. The driver of a trap, io which the children were seated, left the vehicle in a paddock while she visited a house near by. No sooner had Bhe disappeared than the horre became restive, and commenced to dash madly round the 6QoloEU r e The ories of the obildren had the effect of increasing the excite ment of the animal, with the remit that the ocoupants were thrown out. Two of the obildren etruck the fenos, while the others were pioned under the trap whiob overturned. Tto children's injure! were fortunately not of a very serious nature. Several girls have disappsared in Sydney lately, including a young lady named Mona West, who osme from Goulburn on a visit to her uncle, Dr. O’Hara, of Darlinghurst, No trace of Miss West has beau found. Ths police have re ceived word from Dr. O'Hara that Mr Robinson, formerly an organist at the Churob of Eogland at Goulburn but now in a similar position at St. Thomas's Churob of England, North Sydney, bed told him that he saw Miss West io George street osar tbe Q.P.O, at 430 on the afternoon of her disappearance, or on the Friday following. Ho spoke to her, but she was iu sd agitated state, and hastened away after a very brief conversation. She went towards Martinplace. In the same week and ab.ut 4 30 in the alternoon, a woman oovered with a blanket and seated in a taxi cab between two other women, was seen being driven past the Hotel Australia towards Kiog street. Tbe pc lice think that Miss West may have barn induced to enter a taxi cab, and then chloroformed

Io order to mark his appieaiKtiosi tto Waipawa Dramatic Club’s rep tMI I tatiou of “ Sweat Lavender," ths |u Father Bergiu has handed the isorstsi a donation of half a guinea. Advioes to hand from Colombo ooi tain particulars of a remarkable wire's 11 inoideot " that baa oreited mors th. ordinary interest, sod in shipping .... has demanded ao urgent and eihiuni, enquiry. On November Ist the stein, Saldauha lesehed Colombo from A„ tralisn ports, and tbe oaptein report, that earlier io tha week the srir«| a operator bad notifi-d him that be t, received this message: “ Oabio (| iog, can't last five minutes Mo K. “ M.O K’’ ia tbe oode word of u RMS Omrab, whiob raaobed Oolm,| from Bydoey on Thursday, October Sq, all well, and returned her voyage Loudon ou the eveoieg of tbe same j. On the eaplaio of the Seldenha isoeiri the message be eruised around i 0 • vicinity looking for boats or wrier,, end was delayed 24 hours. At the t,, tbe menage wet received tbe Saidas was ahead of tbe mail steamer, i O , vessel's course was turned according On reaching Colombo the matter ■ reported, but the Saldenhe's oommaef wet informed that the Omrah bad rived and departed as ususl on , regular mail oontraot day, two d< prior. Aak for the famous “ Roslyn " Wri, Pad every time ! Containing 100 ,n, fine Bank Paper with artiatio piotnre New Zealand's wonderland, Rotorua, eluding photo of a charming native• Only (id eaeb, from Local Dealers, 1 pawa.