DAY BY DAY

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14770, 8 October 1921, Page 4

DAY BY DAY

The news of the success of the Hamilton Municipal The Success Band in the Test of Selection at the Band The Band. Contest, at Thames, yesterday, will be received with pleasure in Hamilton and district. The local bandsmen well deserve their win. /Vs is well-known, they overcame many difficulties in the past, and with great enthusiasm set about preparing for the contest. For some time they have been practising assiduously, and the fact that their efforts have been crowned with success, against strong competition, is extremely g-ratifying, not only to the men themselves, but to the town which they represent so worthily. The importance of music in the life of a community cannot be over-emphasised, and band-music is not the least important branch of the art. The Hamilton Municipal Band has played its part in the life of the town, and has given much pleasure to the refddents iu the past, and no doubt, when it returns, with its contest honours thick upon it, it will give even more in the future. We join with the townspeople in congratulating Hie band upon its great achievement, and in expressing the hope that it will gain further honours.

The reference in Sir Joseph Cook’s speech at the NaLabour Rule tional Convention in in Sydney to the disasQueensland. Irons results of Labour rule in Queensland is borne out by the conditions existing in that State. Unemployment is increasing rapidly, the Treasury is apparently empty, and hundreds of public servants are being dismissed. To some extent, of course, this is the result of the present depression, but in the case of Queensland the position has undoubtedly been aggravated by the policy of the Government, which has been of so extremist a character that even many of its supporters are beginning to protest. There are signs that the end of Labour rule in Queensland is approaching, and that it will be hastened by defections in its own ranks. The industrialists, it is said, are openly declaring that the Caucus Government has been a failure. Letters have appeared in Brisbane, papers signed by well-known Labour supporters, asserting that they will never vote for a Labour candidate again. The “Red” Labour members have lately been warmly advocating Sinn Feinlsm, applauding Russian Bolshevism, and threatening the country with forced loans, levies on wealth, and a fight to a finish between Capital and Labour, without much effect, it seems, except to create anxiety among the great mass of the workers, who distrust the domination of the extremists. Among other bodies the Metropolitan District Labour Council, the Brisbane branch of the Australian Railway Union, the Brisbane Trades’ Hall Council, and the Inland Transport Workers’ Union have all lately passed resolutions condemnatory of the Government and its methods. In the light of these facts, Mr Theodore’s recent, denunciation of I.W.W—ism suggests a deathbed repentance and is regarded merely as a too tardy exhibition of political tactics.