Instead of suppressing the out siders wouldn't it be better to relieve the pressure of competition by getting some of the insiders to change their occupation? Girls will make shirts, it seems, for 8s a week, a sum on which they cannot live. But for a domestic servant you must pay from 10s to 15s a week, with board and lodging; and do not easily get one at that. Why do not some of our social reformers address themselves to this anomaly? I know at this moment the case of a girl who left the ranks of the distressed needlewomen and took ser vice as a nursemaid. She is in the position exactly of a Brahmin who has broken his caste. Her former companions refuse tc notice her. When they meet her in the street they cut her dead. Sweating becomes possible because girls prefer the factory and the sweating room to domestic service. A good deal of courage was dis played by some of the speakers at the Choral Hall, but I don't find that any one of them had the courage to say this. From a letter of application for employ ment addressed to aDunedinfirmof solicitors I am permitted to make the truly elegant extracts given below. The applicant dates his letter from Sydney, where, as he sets forth in detail, he has had five billets in the space of two years and a half. At the New South Wales Savings Bank he was required to "work all day long without food," the exigencies of the service not permitting even a midday sandwich, it would seem ;—so he left it, he says—"the strain being rather too much for my constitution." He now yearns for employment in New Zealand "as its climate is more conducive to vigorous health and does not tax the energies half sc much as the climate of New South Wales.' Then, without further prelude, he launches into the following astonishingpoetic flight:— I have proved that it is quite possible to be cloyed with sunshine. The metallic glare of a too bright sun may become intolerable to eyes that first opened on less bright but more expres sive skies, and have grown' familiar with the changeful moods of climes that possess far wider range of delicate gradations and subtler nuances of colour. 