POINTS OF VIEW.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 77, 31 March 1928, Page 8

POINTS OF VIEW.

I am still in Auckland city, having a really enjoyable time, both entertaining and instructive. I lmd it very easy to become acquainted with many extremely intellectual people, people who have absorbed and retained more wisdom to the square foot than I thought it possible for collective human nature to contain. Many of the see ni to be inspired, as it were, but whether it is the result of the climate or pictures I know not. Judging bv comparative evidence, I see no reason whv people possessing, as they do, such extraordinary power tor analysis and deduction should refrain from creating separate worlds for themselves, even if +£ t, u PaS rrl me " Ala - vbe extreme modesty jg the hurdle. They no doubt have the ability f or the performance, in fact, their own words provide sufficient evidence to convince any sane individual on that point. Many of them have never been in the country, yet, by instinct, as it were, thev can tell why so many farmers fail to "make g °?u\u ",' a " coni Paied the average farmer with the ass who walked in through the open door of the fowlhouse and there died of starvation owing to the fact that he had not the requisite amount of common sense that should enable him to turn round and walk out. Another very superior type of citizen allowed that Nature's method of beautifying the rural landscape was most uninteresting that is, judging from an aichitectuial, or, in fact, from anv point of view He then pointed to a new brick buildino- and exclaimed, "See there! That is real beauty it cost £ 16,593 13/5 and is now returning twelve pei cent on the outlay." Just then an individual came out of Grey's Avenue—it was formerly named Grey Street"—announcing the fact that he was selling "Ter'apt rab'its, ter'apt rab'its," and this disturbance caused us to lose the thread of our conversation, hence I remarked, "Were vou in the country in the early springtime?" *Mv friend regarded me a bit blankly, so I enlarged ' on the beauty of the country in the vernal Mason when the lambs are frisking and the birds trillin* their love notes. But he remained untouched remarking that the only spring lamb he had' notiie(J coss 1/3 or 1/6 jer ppuiuL —AXuS,