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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 10, 1938.

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ja State housing scheme, and a coal-mining business, and had greatly improved, the hospital system. The impetus thus given to social progress carried it on

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The Bishop of Ely's sugges- tion that drawn blinds on the oc casion of a funeral are to be de precated as part of the "excessive signs of mourning such as were customary in England not many years ago" prompts the thought 1938. that we have very successfully got rid of many of those "exces- sive: signs." They are supposed to have reached their summit in the nineteenth century in the ex- ample set by Queen Victoria.

A PIONEER IN SOCIAL REFORM

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Some little time after the death A Bill has just passed its se- of the Prince Consort, Clarendon cond reading in New Zealand un-wrote to the Ambassador in Paris der the provisions of which all saying that he thought it would persons will ultimately, at the be safe for him to go to some age of sixty, have a pension of modest entertainments now, but thirty shillings a week, It is that it was well to be careful one of the most notable of the since the Queen had recently sent social measures introduced by the back some papers submitted to Dominion's first purely Labour her on the ground that the black Government, which is now in its border was not deep enough. How third year of office, but it is by often do any of us receive a let- no means the only one of its ter now with black bordering? kind. Since it came to power Then there was the obligation, to Mr. Savage's Ministry has es-appear, after the death of a near of tablished a forty-hour week for relative, in that extremity. industry and a

and black caricatured by Wilde in system of com- "The Importance of Being Earn- pulsory arbitration. It has res-est People left provision in their tored the cuts in salaries and wills for mourning gloves and wages made during the slump, mourning rings. Children were embarked on a large policy of great sufferers, being dressed in public works, reinstituted a gra- black from head to foot, denied duated land tax, and nationalis-over considerable periods all ed the Reserve Bank. It has forms of entertainment, and for fixed, guaranteed prices for cera time regarded as "unfeeling" tain staple articles of dairy pro- if they laughed or romped at Nowadays children are duce and taken virtual control of home. land transport. It has made rarely seen in black, and widows' broadcasting a Government ser- weeds are fast disappearing.. vice and a highly interesting

has revived the wage

experiment devoted one: sta-

tion to the transmission of Par-The "Cambridge. liamentary debates, a feature

that is said to be greatly appre-Fragments" ciated by New Zealand's scatter- ed settlers.

As a whole the programme Some wallpaper found "rough- would astonish and might alarm ly rolled up” în a Brighton cellar, any country that had not behind where it had lain for many years, it a vigorous record of social pro-is said to be of "priceless value," gress. But New Zealand led the having been manufactured in. way^ in legislation of this kind China in the later half of the long before a "Socialist" Govern-eighteenth century. Even then it ment was in power there or in is a younger production than a any part of the British Common-discovery made at Cambridge in wealth. Her political evolution is the year 1911. At the Lodge of well described in a volume just Christ's College workmen found published, "Socialism in New the original beams of the ceil Zealand," by Mr. J. A. Lee, who ing of the entrance hall and of is Parliamentary Under Secre the dining-room covered with pa- tary to the Minister of Finance per bearing a black and white de- in the Dominion. He reminds us sign,‹When the design was re- that the pace set in the nineties constructed it was seen that it by such sturdy Radicals de Sed consisted of a conventional po- don and Ballance and, for a time, megranate form of Florentine by Sir Joseph Ward was one that pattern with floriated decoration. slower-moving communities of The find, became more impor- the British people may still envy. tant, however, when it was found A graduated land tax was pass-that printing on the back con- ed in 1891 to break up the big sisted of fragments of a poem on estates. Women were enfranch- the death of Henry VII (Apell ised two years later. Compulsory 1509). As the Lodge was.com- arbitration in labour disputes for pleted about the end of 1509; it lowed in 1894, and on its heels was virtually certain that the pensions legislation. So rapid paper was ed to the beama was the progress of reform that when the Lodge was: first) ocor Sir Joseph Ward;" et well respied. It is agreed, too, that the membered phrase fow

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