COMING OF AGE.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LVI, Issue 5979, 19 March 1935, Page 1

COMING OF AGE.

SOCIAL AT BARRY'S BAY. iOin> Saturday might, March 16th, a very pleasant evening was spent in' the Oddfellows' Hall;, Barry'® Bay, t>o celebrate the' coming of aige of Miris M?ibeili Moore, youngest daughter of Mir and Mr,si C. R. Moore, Barry's Bay. There was a very large 'attendance of fniendls present from the, surroundling Bays and) iChriistchurch, Mr Mowe welcomed ai-il present aind 1 hoped they Would! enjoy themselves. The evening was spent; in; dianeing and a competlh tion wi't.h numbers wais won; by Mites Mabel! Moore -amdl Mr Le:n Gid'dems. iA lucky spot omehstep was won by Mrs W. Weir and Mr Len Giddens and 1 a Monte Carloi one-st?p by Mrs. Aitex. Stewart and Mr Arthur Stewart. A most sumptuous. supper was then banclted round after w:hitc.h, Mr Moore thanked every on© for turning- out .and making such, am- enrjoyiaibte eveirn.imig. iHe them cailed an Mr Tes Uren to -take his place. Mr Uren. spoke l of the .good quialiities' of Miss Mabel and her parents and! said! if there were more Mo,ores Mike them the world' wou'M be much better. "For they are jolly good 1 feilows 1 " was then sang with musical!' 'honours. Hie tffoen preisenited Mjiss Moore with the customary keys. He said there were two keys there, one for health and one for wealth. I M'lsis Maibeil Moore then cut ai mast < beautiful'' ibilrtWay c&kel dee orated! with 211 keiwpies. After' a piece had! been handed l to all present Mr Uren asked aiLl to charge thirdr glasses and dr'auk to the health of .Miss-- Mabel! Moiore and the healitih was diru-nk wiltih musical -honours. IMr Len Gidld'ens bbank&di Mr and IMrs iMoicre oni behiallf of. all present .for the 'good l niighlt's' emtertiainmemt that they had providtedl Mr Moore returredl thanifes and' said the pleasure waiS' theirs. ' ''-Mists' 1 Mfaibeili .'l.. i /.tibamiketd' everyone for the beautiful precenits slie had received and ailso. hle'r parentis for the enijoya'ble evemitog they had given her. Mus'ic was suppled: fcr dlancing by R. A. H. Sitewart and! extras by M'rs G. Tayllor, andl Mrs R. E. Jones, Mr 'R. Moore carried! ouit' t'hs duties of M.IC'. in a micst, capialbille mianner.

NATURE—AND MAN. INDIVIDUALISM V. NATIONALISM WiHIOH IB TO' PREVAIL, i, t (Edited by Leo. Fanning) > ' > • A recemti issue of the Welliinigton, - "'Past'" had' tiwo. reports which would . have .stirred 1 ' thiel mind 1 of anybody • i'mteres'tedi in that infinite .subject, i "Nature l —aindl Man." One airtii:le was s headed 1 : "Bush Destroyed—Water- ' woirks Reiseirve Eire;" .Thiat kind oif ; .fire which sweeps aiwsy a regulator ■ iand purSfier of water nscessairy for : humian llilfe iis most deplioralble, of - course. iKctfw clli'd! thils one occur in ! t'be forest of the Upper Hut't Waiter , Reserve! ? Well', here iis a pasisage of . the "Post's!" report:—"The Mayor ' (Mr A. J. MiciCurd'y) said thait an adjoining property owner set. fire to ■ £'C.ruib on his property and it spread ti'o* the waterworks ,reserve, burning ouit one slide. A; mum-ber of men, itnicliudiing four memibers of the fire ■brigaidfe and some relief workers, : fought the fl-aimes, buit ias they puifc i out the fires the property owner Hilt more fires behind, 'them.. The fire ' fighters did excellent work under •micst diffliicuilit; condiltionis, and some •hiad t'heir icltothing- deisitroycid!. Eiventu&'l'ly the flames .beicaine so fierce that iit became. imipoiS'silbLe to fighit them. Qui'te a Lot of bush on the JAikaitiairawa sM 1 © wasi burnt J' i Medlitaite! cni that stiaitememt,. "as they p.uit out the fires, the property owner ill'lfc micire fires beihind them." Wias he wllt'.hiiiru hiis rilgbtis. Is' an individual) to be permitted tio' persisit i|n a course of aicitlon whilch is &o disastrously agaiineit publiic healith and national welfare ?; Somebody in . authority should msike a thorough in.veistigaitiiioni of this case which conioerns the whiolle eommuniity of Neiw: Zealand. Tf imioja'jry establishes de- j finr!ltieily the' eorrectnossi of tihei "PositV j report the sequel! should be the quick- j .est possuMs alteration) -.of a law, whilch would l al'ltow an individual to ha,ve higher rights l than the general' pubiHic have. 'IPIREIDOIMITiNIAITIINIG EIGOINICXMEC . JNTEIREISIIB." The cither report wais headed "Meat Lsivy Strongly- OlpposedMN'ew anxl's Anisiwer to Britain—lWlhite I

!Baiper and D-cmen"ion's l Reply." Tlhat Wihdite Pa/per 'issued by the. British I 1 Government corutaiined the following pecuiDar sitatement, which should surely startle any basic thinker: — "It is to be observed that white agriculture is 'the biggest single in-. | dras'try im the United! Kinigdom ; it is b a piredlomi'maiting ccomicmiilc interest of the Uniited 1 Kingdom, to maintain ', and, if possible,. to expand her ex- > ports of coal and manufactured 1 gioodis." It -is a. faiir from ' ; that statement that , in. the view of the British Government a reduction ' in the rate oif exhaustion of the llimited ooali measure© woulld be a misfortune. It: i& a "predlominiating ■ | ecor.iomiic. interest'' to use up the coal deposits—sending them out of to foreiign countries—with all passible despatch. "Predominating" for whom? 'Certainly not for tlba ©rit'ish) Etopire. What tfhought i® being giVen to posterity in a po-li'oy whilch aims' at dl;ls®ilpiaitioin instead 1 of a conserv£itii l on of irreplaceable •national wealth required for. tihesafety of the Britisih Ehipire. British 1 scientists !hav® aillreiadiy proved that distillation 'of coal cam make their oounitry indepenidlent of oil supplies fnom overseas. iWelH 1 , well —as an old proverb saysi—i"We live and learn 7 '! To whilch' am addfflct of American slang might retort: "Sez you"! 'Niature d'id something wonderful for ■Great Britain iini giving her those huge coallfiel'dls—^whilch, took hundreds of thouisiandls of years, to miaike from veigetatio^ni—tout mam is. committing' a 'bliundar wilth the tireasuire. INSPIRED BIIRID-LOV'ER, ' DR. MUSOTIE. • A correspondent of the Forest end j Bird Protection Society sends this .very pleas ant 1 report:— Dr Axel Munithe, who attended j Queen Victoria of Siweden at Rome I in her last, illness,' and used 1 the jroyslties of his "best seller 1 " '-The i Story £f Sain Mliaheile" . "to found a ,'bird sarjctuary :iin his 1 native land, ; 'Sweden,, -hais by an apei'ailiioni he undferwenlt at Zurich, (He; hais wrlititen, to tJhe "Times" of Londoni, telling abouit. it. The rrnarii who' Is known in, Europe as the "Moidlerini S»t;. Fraaiicis oif Aissfef is back in Sani IMiicihele, Amaicapri, on t'he Italian . Coast, where,, he says, letters of sympathy continue to over-

wlhem hte. *11 did! ncifc kmow that I had! so many friendis in EngHand," the lebtar read, ''I am under no iiliusion as. ito whom I have to thank for this ; frieridsMip. 1 owe ifc ailili to our rauitual fnienidls, the birds, so near to': the Iheart of; eveiry Emgliiish man and 1 woman, and/ sio near to my own. As I am writing these iines after weeks i of mxiouis susiperase, I begin to aisik ■< myself whether my indeibtednesiSL to 1 our. wi ngedl friend's is noit even far < greater. The niigh.it aifter my, opera- i£ tion was full' of torment. I hiad a been operated! on by a maister hand!, 1 buit my fate wes uncertain. (My "head L was exhausted] by my cour- c age wa® beg'toiing to flag, for mian r geta Ihis counage during jhtiis sleep. Miy- s thoughts, were ais dark as tiha nightt f araundi me!; the night X knew well 1 miight never end. ISudldeniliy a ray of h '%hit flashed f romi my tiredf brain r down to miy veny heart. r I reimemr " bered alt ait onice tlh'aib it was 'giornto n

saneto/ the awwitversary of St. Franefe c;f Asisisi, tiha llife-lonig friend! whso had never f orsaiken me in the hour, of need. The day of. St. Framcis'! I ■heard' .the fluttering of wing® over my 'bead, and! far, fair alway, tlhe sotßt, slilvery cbi'me cif tChiea foels I kneiw so well. Tih© palle Umbr.raw siajint, 'the .frienid af &'H! forlorn creatures on this eiartih, stood ,hy my Sid!© iri Ms..torn cassock, j ust a® I bad so * often, seen: him o.n tlhe frescoed wal'lis of his dim chiapel wh-esni my eyieis coulid see. Swift-win>ged. birdlsi. fluttered! and sang 1 rouiiid* hfe head; dtitaens fed from his outstretched handls; others nestled fearllessly in, ilbe folds' olf his cassock. " The fear had. haunted me .so long left mry tormented l .brain, and' a - sitflflinete®'and! peace fell over me. I .knew I wasi safe. I know fchtaifc the :Giver of light wais having mercy oni me amid wonilid liet' me see agaim Hils. beauitiilful .world. The diay iis breaking whispered! tlhe mum"