Dr Newman and his Constituents.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1683, 1 April 1885, Page 2

Dr Newman and his Constituents.

Du Newman has been addressing bis constituents at Wellington. His speech did not display a single trace of either thought, originality or capa city to grasp large public questions. Still, it was tolerably well put together and gave apparent satisfaction to a not over-critical audience. On one or two points Dr Newman had apparently received some information as to the intentions of the Ministry. On the education question he remarked : “ He was glad to see that the Premier was taking up this matter of education from a much more practical point of view than had been taken. In regard to technical education, he pointed out that at a very small cost—say £1 per head per annum —a large amount of technical education could be given. It was a sad thing to find so many boys growing up in our midst who were not educated in this respect. Ihe result would be that the men imported from Home would get all the best “ billets,” and our own men would get the hardest work and the fewest pence. Drawing should be made a compulsory subject in the schools, and he believed this was shortly to be done.” Then on the immigration question Dr Newman said that with regard to the sum of £ 100,000 voted for immigration, he thought only a portion of that sum was needed, because while New Zealand was prosperous they need not spend money in bringing people bore, as they would come on their own account, and while the colony was depressed it was wrong to bring out people to glut an already over-glutted market” We quite agree with the latter view. Dr Newman plausibly wound up his speech by declaring ” that the true endofpoli tics was to make life easy and nations happy,” Certainly, that is a cheerful view of politics. We are afraid, however, that it is seldom realised in practice.