MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19504, 3 February 1926, Page 5

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

CIVIL BUSINESS. JUDGMENT BY DEFAULT. A sitting of the Civil Court was held yesterday, before Air J. S. Barton S.M., when judgment for the plaintiffs, by default, was given in the following undefended cases:— Wanganui Hospital Board v. E. Fargie, claim £1 Is fid, costs Ils; Bennett Ltd. v. AV. Dunn, £l3 Bs, costs £2 IBs; C. H. Burnett v. K. McGregor, £3O 4s, costs £4 5s Bd; Frankish, Bellamy and Co. Ltd. v. H. Osborne, £lO 6s sd, costs £3; Wanganui City Council v. William D. Pratt, £3 10s, costs 10s; same v. Robert H. Whisker, 8s Bd, costs Bs, Dean and Co. v. Empire Clothing Coy., £77 Os Bd, costs £4 18s Bd; and M. L. Lampe v. A. J. Peachey, £7l, costs £4 15s 6d. Judgment Summons. S. J. Barry was ordered to pay W. F. Roberton the sum of £8 7s, forthwith, in default 10 days’ imprisonment. F. S. Deany was ordered to pay Annie Evans the sum of £3 18s forthwith. in default 4 days’ imprisonment. Stewart Bros, proceeded against R. H. Crutchley for the sum of £6. Debtor was ordered to pay the sum of £3 10s forthwith, in default 5 days’ imprisonment. Fred Newth was ordered to pay R. L. Avery the sum of £5 9s forthwith, in default 6 days imprisonment.

order that under a regime of feigned equality, the man who earned should pay for the children of the man who did not try to earn. That vicious principle had been carried a good deal further to-day, until in England, it had actually developed into the dole. Owing, however, to the laws of natural inheritance prevailing over man’s artificial attempt to create unattainable equality, public education amongst nations had yet produced only the partial and highly dangerous result of semieducation. Their American cousins had found to their disappointment that 65 per cent, of their physically perfect population had attained only the mental capacity of a child of 14 years of age. This country had only yet developed the moral courage to attempt a mental census of its population. He urged his audience to agitate for that so that every citizen could carry a badge of his or her intelligence value, exactly as examination certificates are issued on leaving school. The Education Department at Wellington was making annually slow but increasing use of the intelligence tests, so there were hopes that they might soon become part of the Dominion’s national life and enable youth to select their careers early from a correct and scientific basis, instead of from temporary or parental preference. Labuur Redundance. Confining, the speaker said that labour in one country or another evolved a machine—Trade Unions—very comprehensive in its area, absolutely international in its grip, solid and severely tested in its organisation, with due supply and variety of officers and finance, specially suited to its requirements. His scheme for labour reform was simple, natural and certain to appeal to the best leaders, as well as a considerable section of the Labour Party, He compared the existing Labour machine to a motor-car engine, which had been taken possession of by a driver, who was using it for dangerous and anti-patriotic purposes. He suggested that the various Parliaments of the different Dominions should call on labour, on behalf of each nationality, to reverse the gear of its engine, and undertake to use it only for correctly economic and peacefully productive purposes. If they accepted the change of principle .hen the Labour leaders would have to take complete charge of and responsibility for all members of the unions throughout the Dominions, and so conduct their finances as to entirely relieve the State of all expenditure on any form of labour. To enable them to do this, he

suggested that they be empowered to collect from all employers an established pro rata charge on each worker, to be deducted before the weekly wage was paid over. The unions would be able to provide against unemployment, to see that all their men were insured and that all requirements were brought within their reach on a co-operative basis, as quickly as the unions’ funds developed. Such a system would make Labour far more useful to its own members than it was at present, and convert it into a creditable and productive section of the nation.

National happiness, and ease legislatively, were within their reach, but like all else in life, only at a price. That price to-day was the partial and temporary restriction of the individual privileges in favour of greater rights of the whole people. Their wise action to-day would greatly benefit the future. Indifference or delay would lead to a cataclysm. The social and polical garden of the white peoples had been permitted, by their own negligence, to become clogged with human weeds. The culture and civilisation of centuries jvas endangered by the undue encoachment of noxious and poisonous growth. He asked his hearers to screw up their moral courage, and to commence at once to get rid of their human weeds, as the only means of purifying and rejuvenating the British Empire. At the conclusion of his interesting address, the speaker was accorded a hearty vote of thanks ,at the suggestion of Rotarian J. Coull, who said he would like Air Murray to take up and address Rotarians on the question of hereditary environment.