ENGAGEMENT

Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20690, 28 December 1938, Page 3

ENGAGEMENT

MILLS WYLLIE Mr and Mrs James G. Wyllie announce the engagement of their elder daughter. Florence Ruth, to Thomas Ernest Kelsey, only son of Mrs A. E. Mills, of Auckland, and the late Mr If. Mills, of Rotokauri. \l l ong-ag-emom notices for publication must be signed by both the parties to the engagement.

Timber and gum made that prosperity These have gone, and the towns dependent on them have gone too.

Perhaps the most glaring example is Charlestown, once the largest citv in New Zealand with (I think) 28,000 inhabitants, five churches, 57 livery stables, and I wouldn’t like to sav how many public-houses. The first tramline in New Zealand was laid in Charlestown. To-day the service car passes a bare rough plain without the least visible sign of a city having once been there-—not a house, not a fence, not a tree, not a chimney, not even a gravestone. It was a gold-rush town. The gold has gone, so has the town. Will the citizens of New Zealand never realise that no town can maintain itself after the industry it depends upon fails? The Dominion today depends on the produce of the land, the meat, the wool, the butter, etc. Will the farmer be allowed to continue to produce these things, or will he be taxed out of existence? The old method of taxing farming was to demand a percentage of the produce after it was garnered. The new method is to raise costs so that it does not pay to produce. It is the nonfarming part of the community that is continually urging Governments to extravagances non-paying railway lines, foolishly expensive stations, etc", all of which (with a hundred other expenses) the farmer must ultimately pay for in raised costs of production. Once convince the farmer of to-day that these high costs will be permanent, and fewer and fewer men will be willing to go on the land. Won't the Dominion realise the danger before the Industry on which it depends begins to wane? —Helen Wilson, president, Women's Division of the Farmers' Union.